Word: thoreauvian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reader less self-consciously worldly and less corrosively bitter than Hodge, Purdy's tone and substance--the fact that this book is about Jedediah Purdy, and that any power in the book springs from his unshakeable convictions--may seem narcissistic; and his tendency towards moralistic aphorisms, towards a Thoreauvian epigrammatic style, seems a little bit pompous...
This isn't directed only to seniors. The rut of achievement is debilitating here as well. We are too young to already be trapped in lives that leave us unfulfilled and exhausted. At the risk of triteness, a Thoreauvian dictum needs to be trotted out: Live deliberately. If you're not enjoying yourself now, you certainly won't be as a third-year medical student. Take time off if you need a reminder that there's life outside the Ivy League; it was one of the best things both of us did. While you're here...
Hanson told the Crimson that wrote the book this past summer in her family's cabin in the woods of Michigan. Lest she give the impression of a Thoreauvian romp in the woods, however, she warns, "I wouldn't say it was the most pleasant experience.... I wish I had other work to do." She adds that the life of a writer sometimes got to her because "it was very solitary...