"the adventures of henry thoreau," i had to defend the title a little bit with the publisher. i chose the word adventures because thoreau was not and i think our ideals, a thinker sitting with his chin in his palm your he led a very busy life. in this book with james and aching for sex halfway through his time at walden, he found a progressive private school with his brother. he faces his own illnesses and the deaths of various loved ones, one of them literally dies in agony in his arms. he falls in love your kid asks the same girl to marry him and is rejected by her that his brother had too much earlier asked to marry him and was rejected by her. so there's a lot of human crazy, wonderful adventures in there, and he has a dramatic spiritual revelation atop a mountain in the wilderness in maine, and he spends a very small and unimportant night in jail. until he makes it important i being the person who wrote best about the concept of civil disobedience, and creating about 25% fictional autobiographical i as a narrative, so those are interesting to me. so it was such fun to recr

so that becomes a form of patriotism and the legacy of henry david thoreau, martin king , a rich tradition. a beautiful smile. >> m not certain if this is from du bois. if you don't understand white supremacy everything else would only confuse you. would like to find out if you can explain that and, is that relevant to the? >> it sounds like some plan that he would have said. if you missed not just the fight but how it is shaped in the modern world of our economy, nation states, they'll tell us to see just how deep cuts. of course he is part of that ban the taxes it is the problem of the color line. that's a letter saying you don't understand. that things you can understand without thinking about what's the premise it, i suppose. >> a lot of blues. it. >> in general, if you are trying to on the stand the social world it seems to me it is sort of a nonstarter unless -- now, if one should say that there are booths level where it and back or did. and so getting better over the long haul worked before we go to the next question, he has this in mind. a question he has been wrestling with all of

[inaudible] >> i like the version, cumbersomcummerbund -- out mentd about timing again, henry thoreau, his bicentennial of his birth is three years from the. this book comes out this year, the next year the paperback. so you have to survive in the real world it -- suggested that the timing for things you already want to do. i have no idea of how long i've been talking to it could be monday afternoon for all i know. we are good? >> we can go on a little longer. >> two more questions, thank you, sir. [inaudible] >> it varied enormously but originally it was along the everybody was a little blurry. there are pictures, they finally get the kids to sit there like this can people go everyone looks so sad and solemn in the 19th century. whether that's adequate you read in the diaries of all the funny things to think that having lunch and watching fireworks and ago set for the voters and had to go like this for nine minutes or whatever. the dog in the picture, just a ghostly blur. so it was changing very quickly at the time, but the passage i read about the death of emerson's son waldo, that