January 12, 2016
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You just know all these fools own a battered old copy of Walden. And you also know”but apparently they didn”t”that Thoreau didn”t live there for long, and that while he did he entertained visitors, ventured into town a lot, and even had some broad who did his laundry.
All my life I”ve been scorned as the weird little girl who read and daydreamed for hours, who “lived in a fantasy world.” But isn”t it nuttier to stubbornly materialize your fantasy and insist that it’s”to use a favorite tiny-housers word””sustainable”? If only their Googling for “blueprints” had somehow taken them to “Oneida” and “New Harmony.” (Hint: There was an “old” “Harmony” for a reason…)
“The movement seems like a mirage,” one man told The Globe and Mail, echoing others. “I have given up the dream”because I found out it was just a dream.”
Hell, I could have told you that. But I”m the crazy one.
