> "TeaLady (Mari C.)" yahoo.com> wrote innews:Xns9A8C976011D16spblt@130.133.1.4:
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>> schizobeck aol.com> wrote in
>>news:fd982c4f-72c7-4fbd-b2a6-77b2effdbdc0@y38g2000hsy.googlegr
>> oups.com:

>

>>> Also, LOTS of nice, sane people live/lived in the woods
>>> including myself, Grizzly Adams (do they have that in
>>> UK-adia?) and Henry David Thoreau (well worth the read and
>>> quite an enjoyable read at that), Laura Ingalls Wilder
>>> (another great read) and many more.

>

>> HDT went a few blocks into town and had his clothes cleaned.  
>> And I think he had a cleaning service as well.  Possibly ate out
>> (not outdoors) or had cooking done for him too.

>
> Didn't his mom/sis do most/all of his cleaning/cooking?
>

>> He was a WUSS.

>
> Louisa May Alcott once said of freakyweird beard:
> "Thoreau's facial hair "will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and
> preserve the man's virtue in perpetuity."
>
> Anotherwords: " Dude's gonna be a virgin 'til he croaks".