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January 31, 2008

Walden

What Henry Thoreau did not have was a good underground car park. BLDGBlog considers Walden via Nicholas Bone's Magnetic North.

You're fed up. You want to be alone, to spend some time getting to know your own inner tendencies, how you react to things free from the influence of others, what you think about when you're not at work or out drinking with friends or consumed with constricting deadlines; you want to sit alone in the emptiness, surrounded by nothing, implanting yourself there in the void, all deliberate solitude and meditation.

But you don't go to the woods.

You don't go out to some canyon somewhere. Forget nature.
You build a cabin in an underground car park and you eat canned spinach.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 31, 2008 08:21 AM