THOREAU NAILS IT

In his journal entry for February 8, 1841,

Henry David Thoreau gets it exactly right. "My Journal," he says today at The Blog of Henry David Thoreau (put up each day by Greg Perry of Grapez, thanks Greg!), "is that of me which else would spill over and run to waste...."

"I must not live for it, but in it for the gods," he says. "They are my correspondent, to whom daily I send off this sheet postpaid. I am clerk in their counting-room, and at evening transfer the account from my day-book to ledger."

It is almost as if Thoreau were describing blogging. You are my correspondents, I might say, to whom daily I send off this sheet postpaid. I am clerk in your counting-room.

Comments

[butuki]

I don't know how he did it, but Thoreau always manages to get the words just right.

[Tom Montag]

Butuki--yup, every day I go to the HDT blog and every day I say to myself about some sentence or passage: I sure wish I'd written that!