Posted on April 23, 2009 by Ben W
Here’s Henry David Thoreau on modern improvements.
As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by Ben W
One of the greenbelt book club books is Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Here’s where I wrote about it: http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/blog/2009/04/passionate-about-books-seeks-similar/
Today I found that you can have books sent to you in handy bite sized chunks by email.
So every day for the next 114 days I’m going to read Walden.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
You can [...]
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