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Article: Living deep as the river riffles along.(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2004
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Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard
CAMP SHERMAN - Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. ...'
Me? I wanted the same basic program, but with the added luxury of perhaps picking up a fuzzy radio broadcast of the Oregon/Arizona State men's basketball game Saturday night.
Given this juxtaposition of hoops and Henry David, my weekend on the Metolius River might be aptly called a "free Thoreau" - an attempt at the philosophical foul line to compensate for the injustices inflicted ...