Okay, I must say to blog on this I had to re-read certain parts of this piece. There was so much detail and different tangents and directions that it was hard to keep in line with where the author was going. Granted when the author did stick with one part of the piece and described it in detail, he did a great job of catching my attention. It's just when he moved around so much I tended to loose track of the storyline somewhat. From this piece I gathered that this author definitely enjoyed nature, imagination, beautiful scenery (nature), ideas of taking advantage of life and not in a hurried some way, didn't like post offices, and thought we should take the approach to life like nature does and not be "thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails."
My favorite line of the piece is, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..." The line goes further on, but I love the depth of the first part of the sentence. The author of this piece is great at illustrations, but still I get lost sometimes on his tangents.
I can't say I would or could handle too many of the authors stories, but perhaps I'm not an advanced enough reader.
I don't think it's an issue of being an advanced reader; I just think it's an issue of getting used to how he writes. Thanks for the post!
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