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emodendroket
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Death of a Programmer, Life of a Farmer
Many of them end up going back to the not-so-simple life in a few years so I'm hesitant to read too much into an early account like this.
Apocryphon
on May 5, 2015
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Worked for Thoreau.
pnathan
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I think Walden is the most snobby book I've read in my
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. Everything he had, he got from the people he looked down on in the hardworking area round about that he 'escaped' from.
lgieron
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Thoreau abandoned his cabin after 2 years.
emodendroket
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He spent more time editing his manuscript than he did actually living in his cabin.
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