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[edit] Categories

I can't figure out why the "category: 1854 books" isn't working ... any ideas?

not fixed now. Walden 13:52, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)

Is it worth having a category with cultural references of this book? I only know of two - The Perks of Being a Wallflower and in "Ghosts", the second short story in the New York Trilogy. are there any more? Malrase 18:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

? Levellers, Battle of the Bean Field - "As the sun rose on the bean field, they came like a wolf on the fold" (a song about unconventional traveller lifestyle and the clash of these people with the UK establishment - also references Stonehenge and "the 303" (a UK road))

[edit] "Making wild jungle love to trees...?"

This means that Thoerou hired a prositute to have sex with him in the jungle trees. :D He liked it a lot.

"It is wrong to see Walden simply as propaganda or a diatribe.", that sounds like an opinion to me. Consider it deleted -Vladimir Lenin 00:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed some vandalism

Or reverted the change to be more exact

194.144.92.20 09:20, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walden's conclusion is the most poetic prose?

this seems to be POV, im deleting it:

saved here: "Walden's last paragraph is as poignant and poetic a piece of prose as has ever been written." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.229.76 (talk) 01:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Never Married

Thoreau was never married, so his wife could not have cooked his meals or cleaned for him, as stated in the first section. I do not have an account, so could someone edit that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.52.91.157 (talk) 21:29, 7 March 2008 (UTC)