9:00 PM Henry_David_Thoreau has joined the chat.
9:00 PM [Sue] lol
9:00 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] hello
9:00 PM [Don] Hello fine Sir.
9:00 PM [Sue] Mr. Thoreau how's Walden Pond?
9:00 PM [Sue] Still as you left it?
9:00 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] hello sirs and ladies
9:00 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] waldo pond is just as I remember it
9:00 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] blooming
9:00 PM [Don] Did you ever figure out why you went to the woods?
9:00 PM [Sue] And why you came back out?
9:01 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I have not, no. My descendants have their explanations
9:01 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I seem to have many great-great-grandchildren now. Too many greats for my addled mind to compute
9:01 PM [Sue] Have they explained the condos they built around the pond?
9:01 PM [Sue] Eye sores
9:01 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I totally agree. I've half a mind to complain to the government
9:02 PM [Don] You wacky Transcendentalists!
9:02 PM [Sue] Its a cult
9:02 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I'm proud to say that my beard is quite magnificent now. You have to see it to believe it.
9:02 PM [Sue] I'm sure its cozy
9:02 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I use it for a tea cozy, actually
9:03 PM [Don] After all these years it's not a touch gamey?
9:03 PM [Sue] Pot holders?
9:03 PM [Don] Pot?
9:03 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] gamey? What wild words are these?
9:03 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] No, no pot.
9:03 PM [Don] Oh......Nevermind.
9:03 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I hear that slavery is no longer prevalent
9:04 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] at least I did something worthwhile in my rather distinguished life, if I must say so myself.
9:04 PM [Don] What was that?
9:04 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] why, I spent years fighting against the institution of slavery.
9:04 PM [Don] What an ego this guy has Sue.
9:04 PM [Sue] Hmmph
9:05 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] those accursed slave-drivers wouldn't listen
9:05 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] no matter how masterfully I wielded my pen
9:05 PM [Don] :tired:
9:05 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] ego? I am simply presenting the facts as they come to me.
9:05 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I see no ego, hear no ego...
9:05 PM [Sue] Ok....
9:05 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] dear me, that was a fine line
9:06 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] So where have I stumbled upon? Can someone tell me where I am? I woke up and I feel quite refreshed. I must have dozed for a while and now I am in unknown parts.
9:07 PM [Don] Anarchists aren't welcome here bub. You might want to think about moving along.
9:07 PM [Sue] Emma Goldberg
9:07 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] settle down young pup. You have no business telling Henry David Thoreau what to do.
9:07 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] good lord, what's that sound?
9:08 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] The very devil has appeared!
9:08 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Can someone direct me to Concord? This place rather scares me.
9:08 PM [Don] Don't you a tree to go hug?
9:08 PM [Sue] The blue door
9:08 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] strange creatures waving their arms, apparitions sending words at me. I know not who they are or where they come from
9:09 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] my my, that's awfully rude
9:09 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] don't they teach manners anymore?
9:09 PM [Don] I guess they're just....wait for it.....civily disobedient
9:09 PM [Sue] Not in the Public School system
9:09 PM [Don] Bwahahahaha!
9:09 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I am not familiar with the term.
9:10 PM [Don] Which term are you noit familiar with?
9:10 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Public School System? How dreadfully awful. I always believed in home schooling
9:10 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] "civily disobedient" Strange strange and yet strange
9:11 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] who are you spirits and why are you haunting my dreams? What have I done to deserve this horrible fate? Oh Lord, save me!
9:12 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] ah, now they have quieted. Thank you Lord. You are kind and merciful.
9:12 PM [Don] It's similar to the title of a book you wrote.
9:12 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] AHHHH
9:13 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] which book do you refer to, ghoul? I wrote many books, some of which were not published.
9:13 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] The material which was not published would make you positively shudder.
9:14 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] perhaps it was for the best. Feeble minds would not be able to grasp them. Even the title would create shock and awe and blow your mind.
9:14 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] as it were
9:15 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] someone must have summoned me. I should still be sleeping. Who rudely awakened me? Speak!
9:15 PM [Don] It's your most famous work.
9:16 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I know not of what became popular after I died. What is in vogue and what is not.
9:16 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] My best work? I know. My strangest work? I know well. My worst cottoned work? I know best. But famous work? That is for others to determine.
9:18 PM [Don] Why did you villify John Brown so much?
9:19 PM [Don] Come on, it doesn't take that long to Google.
9:19 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] John Brown was my ally. Do not speak ill of him!
9:19 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] what is this "Google"? Why must you confound me?
9:20 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] And why am I cursed with a half-witted ghoul? Ghouls and spirits are bad enough. They torment me even more when they lack even a shred of intelligence.
9:21 PM [Don] Make me!
9:21 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] they evade my questions. They are amazingly numb-skulled. Oh Lord, save me from their evil ways!
9:21 PM [Don] :sick:
9:21 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Make you what? Disappear?
9:21 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Why do those graven images appear?
9:22 PM [Don] Because I have magic powers
9:22 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Either reunite me with my comrads or leave me to my suffering!
9:22 PM [Sue] This should be good
9:22 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] do not torment me such
9:23 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Maybe it ought to be good. But it most certainly is not.
9:23 PM [Don] Henry......How's the syphyllis?
9:23 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] That is highly offensive.
9:24 PM [Sue] I thought it was more of a burning sensation
9:24 PM [Don] I read you have it?
9:24 PM [Don] Is this not true?
9:24 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] My rivals slander me in my passing.
9:24 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] They could not best me when I was alive, so they resort to slandering a dead man. Shameful.
9:25 PM [Don] You know Robert Louis Stephenson said you were effeminate! Ha!
9:26 PM [Don] He called you a girl!
9:26 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] All I know how to do is write. I do not know how to exorcise. This is not a job for me. Where is my Lord and Savior? Why does he desert me in my time of need?
9:26 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I care not what that man said.
9:26 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Stevenson. You offend him deeply
9:26 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] if he were here, he would have your head
9:27 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I knew him when he was only a boy.
9:27 PM [Sue] Ok this is all charming - you have us
9:27 PM [Don] He called you a girl.
9:27 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] You say. Spirits lie. Lying, thieving spirits
9:27 PM [Sue] fess up Thoreau =
9:27 PM [Don] Alright Henry this was fun. Time to take the mask off.
9:27 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I confess. I am actually still dead. This must be a dream. There is no other way
9:28 PM [Sue] drum roll
9:28 PM [Don] Are you Red?
9:28 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] ah, the drums are pleasant
9:28 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I wish I had lived to hear them one more time
9:28 PM [Don] Are you Bruce?
9:28 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I am not red! The Red are horrible creatures!
9:28 PM [Sue] hmmmmm
9:28 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I am White and proud of it!
9:28 PM [Don] Are you Jason?
9:28 PM [Sue] Except for slavery
9:28 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] My name is Henry.
9:29 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I can be White and still have empathy for lesser beings
9:29 PM [Don] Hey Sue, did you know Robert Louis Stevenson called him a girl?
9:29 PM [Sue] Yes
9:29 PM [Don] Lesser beings?
9:29 PM [Sue] And then he said your momma
9:30 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] You seem to be putting many words in Stevenson's mouth.
9:30 PM [Sue] It was on that MTV show
9:30 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I never recall him saying any such thing.
9:31 PM [Sue] Alright give it up
9:31 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] And my memory was famed far and wide. I never forgot a word spoken to me or of me.
9:31 PM [Don] You're the one who said lesser beings?
9:31 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I did say lesser beings. What of it?
9:31 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Are you a lesser being?
9:31 PM [Sue] Lesser then what?
9:31 PM [Sue] or who
9:31 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Spades may be offended by being called spades.
9:32 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Lesser than what is ideal.
9:32 PM [Don] Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau's endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society to be a mark of effeminacy: "...Thoreau's content and ecstasy in living was, we may say, like a plant that he had watered and tended with womanish solicitude;
9:32 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I will not say more. You cannot entice me.
9:32 PM [Don] See he called you a girl.
9:32 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] He was very complimentary
9:32 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] You cannot read. You are most certainly lesser in every way.
9:32 PM [Don] I guess if you like being called a girl.
9:32 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Fool! Bandit!
9:33 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I reject your reality and substitute my own.
9:36 PM [Don] Thoreau was dismissed as a cranky provincial, hostile to material progress
9:36 PM [Don] He also said you were cranky. I can see hat.
9:36 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] That is libelous.
9:36 PM [Don] That would make you a cranky girl.
9:36 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] That is actionable. If only I weren't dead...
9:37 PM [Sue] what do you care you live in a cave
9:37 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] you unspeakable fool. I was never referred to as of the feminine persuasion. Only halfwits would think that.
9:37 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I do NOT live in a cave.
9:37 PM [Sue] the kettle...
9:38 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I live in a luxurious Mansion. Turn left at the Pearly Gates, veer left past the guard dog and you're there. Easy as pie.
9:38 PM [Don] You were a big influence of Leo Tolstoy.
9:38 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I wish I could return to that reality. This dream is disturbing my thoughts.
9:38 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Tolstoy? I know not of that name.
9:38 PM [Sue] I'll say
9:38 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] you'll say what, siren?
9:39 PM [Don] Henry...or can I call you Hank? Can you see in the future?
9:39 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I am not a seer
9:39 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] but you can ask me questions anyway. I do my best, as always.
9:40 PM [Don] What are Saturday's lotto numbers?
9:40 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] They come in hordes. Oh Henry, Oh Henry, tell us some drivel
9:40 PM [Sue] Who will be governor of the US VIrgin Islands?
9:40 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] drivel deserves as drivel gets
9:40 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Robert Mongro
9:40 PM [Sue] *sigh*
9:40 PM [Don] Cranky Hank the girl. Ha!
9:40 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] you shall not blame me if I err in predictions. This must be many years into the future
9:41 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Hank is a fine man.
9:41 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Hank the Yank, they call him.
9:41 PM [Don] If you like men who peers call girls that have syphyllis than yeah... I guess you are.
9:42 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] You are a sick, sick ghoul.
9:43 PM [Don] I think I'm going to turn in. Night Sue! Night Hank!
9:43 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] if you had a mother, I would tell her to spank you something fierce
9:43 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] the spirit leaves! It leaves me to rest!
9:43 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] Praise the Lord!
9:43 PM [Sue] Yes good night!
9:43 PM Sue has left the chat.
9:43 PM [Don] Don't forget your penicillin!
9:43 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] He is great!
9:43 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] penicillin?
9:43 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] What is this that you speak of?
9:43 PM Don has left the chat.
9:43 PM [Henry_David_Thoreau] I must flee from the devilish lying spirits