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Scholars help us recognize Thoreau as profound storyteller.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20040818
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Byline: Julia Keller

It was, you might say, a reality TV show before there was reality TV _ before there was TV, period.

When Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) toddled off to the woods outside Concord, Mass., to craft his little shack and "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life," it wasn't an earnest, humble, guileless journey _ even though myth would have it so, myth that has flourished in the 150 years since "Walden" was published Aug. 9, 1854.

It was a stunt, pure and simple. A situation dreamed up to see just what would happen if you took a city slicker with a ...

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