Carrol Cox wrote: > Hey, give literary credit in your jokes. Thoreau will come back and haunt > you.
It's true that it was Thoreau who said that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," in his WALDEN. But he's across the pond, as it were. Seriously, I wasn't referring to Thoreau as much as his phrase's status as a (minor) cliché. And, digging deeper, I think that a lot of people who _really_ live with style (e.g., celebrities) are covertly living lives of quiet desperation. -- Jim Devine / "Living a life of quiet desperation -- but always with style!" _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
