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Rinella expressed a negative opinion of Thoreau, calling him a "candy ass" and questioning his motivations for writing about the Maine woods while frequently visiting his mother.
1847 Henry David Thoreau, you know, wrote his book on the Maine woods, went up to, he's a candy ass.
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Rinella expressed a negative opinion of Thoreau, calling him a "candy ass" and questioning his motivations for writing about the Maine woods while frequently visiting his mother.
1847 Henry David Thoreau, you know, wrote his book on the Maine woods, went up to, he's a candy ass.
He did inspire Teddy Roosevelt.
He's a total candy ass. Falls.
Well, he's like obsessed with his mom. Even when he was doing that stuff about living in that camp, he's still walking home to his ma's every other day.
Well, I mean, he had it a little harder than you and us, right? Like he didn't have power. He didn't have anything. I think he was, uh, I think he wasn't he like running off someone else's money and stuff? Well, probably. He was dabbling. He's a candy ass.
I went to the woods to live deliberately kind of at my mom's though.