Re: [pf] Thoreau; E.B. White

At 18:21 20/2/2001 -0800, Ron Hands wrote:
>  . . .
>   In the meantime, I encourage everyone, including Diane, to look up an
>essay by that wonderful writer, E.B. White, titled "Walden,"  in the
>collection One Man's Meat.
>   It's presented in the form of a note to the author:  "Miss Nims, take a
>letter to Henry David Thoreau."
>   A few paragraphs along, White indicates why the book should appeal to
>PFers: "As our common complexities increase, any tale of individual
>simplicity (and yours is the best written and the cockiest) acquires a new
>fascination; as our goods accumulate, but not our well-being, your report 
>of an existence without material adornment takes on a certain awkward
>credibility."
>   And that was published in 1939...
>

· I started looking for E.B. White's "One Man's Meat" on the web, in
Google; didn't get far. I was distracted by a 1961 interview with E.B.
White in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/lifetimes/white-notes.html

David.

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