tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939290855438272306.post7532613064618249636..comments2023-09-19T08:52:46.269-05:00Comments on Alms for Oblivion: The Strangeness of Thoreaupiershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12042745369869839918noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939290855438272306.post-27847278205734056532011-09-11T12:04:29.402-05:002011-09-11T12:04:29.402-05:00Except for the fact that he had been in love with ...Except for the fact that he had been in love with a woman in Concord. It was unrequited, as far as I know. He writes about the animal and spiritual in man, "Rise up, Arjuna! Be the powerful enemy of desire..." and warrior for the soul, or something close. I would guess he had plenty of sexual desires, and he repressed them. He did not write or live in a time when people would express sexual inclinations as we are wont to today. Where does the "homosexual urges" thought come from? Not that it matters; he wasn't like Walt Whitman, who was promiscuously homo. HDT was a strange man. He affected my life, and that of so many others. To know what we know and read what we read about him since the 1850's, a century and a half later is by definition "strange," certainly. Few will ever receive such attention.Stonechuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227352974143828857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4939290855438272306.post-70102166231400786892008-10-09T17:40:00.000-05:002008-10-09T17:40:00.000-05:00Are there people with no sexual desires? I don't ...Are there people with no sexual desires? I don't know. One does know, however, that there are people who suppress their desires. Could Thoreau have been trying to fight homosexual urges? If he was, he probably succeeded.<BR/><BR/>Instead of saying "The Strangeness of Thoreau," perhaps one should say "The Queerness of Thoreau."Lao Qiaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15295030239306528508noreply@blogger.com