I don't often drag home from work at 9:30 p.m., but I did last night. No blogging today. Here's something from my miscellaneous script bank for just such occasions.
Unconventional Americans preaching detachment:
"In a society of scolds and strivers, Thoreau saw the nation's promise in loafing, not achieving or acquiring, and he argued that 'the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without' excess stuff. A century later, Kerouac echoed these words in Visions of Cody, writing that '[e]verything belongs to me because I'm poor.'"
John Leland, Hip: The History, p. 116.
