Word: thoreau
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...golfing, go-cart riding or apple-picking. I, of course, was beside myself. Though I could barely form complete sentences, I do remember launching into diatribes: "Where are the five star hotels? The paparazzi? My close-up?" My brother sucked it up and tried to pretend that he was Thoreau, forced to the outskirts of civilization. But who could have predicted that the Midwest would be such a trendy vacation destination these days? I feel like a boob for ever mocking it. If you're looking for a hotspot, try the Wisconsin Dells-a budget-friendly Disney World with miles...
...quiet Boston suburb of Walden, Mass., once the site of Thoreau's introspection about the power of nature and the essence of humanity, Natalie M. Heffellinger was raised...
...like Thoreau, Heffellinger says she does not want to be around crowds and sometimes becomes upset by having too many people around...
...keeping with her ideas of spirituality, she occasionally visits Walden to enjoy the tranquility of the place where Thoreau found enlightenment...
Shakespeare takes this all in with a shadow's unobtrusiveness, never putting himself forward except to throw in a perfect quote from Henry David Thoreau or Blaise Cendrars. More even than his encompassing research, it is his undeluded sympathy that persuades us. Chatwin "needed someone both to run away from and to come back to," Shakespeare writes, with typical shrewdness, "and he found in Elizabeth that person." In the woman who was forced to work as a cashier in a Toad Hall garden center while her now famous husband gallivanted around the world collecting lovers, the author finds a hero...