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You could also see it as a refreshingly honest take. Most people who spend time in the wilderness feel the need to write about how great it was and how much wi
by hugh4 11y ago
You could also see it as a refreshingly honest take.
Most people who spend time in the wilderness feel the need to write about how great it was and how much wisdom they think they acquired in the process, because let's face it, if you do it and don't come back with some platitudes in tow then you look like a fool.
This author's "been there, done that, got bitten by mosquitoes, saw a moose one time, that was cool" is perhaps more honest than Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau put together.
- roymurdock 11y agoIt would've been refreshing if she hadn't tried to make it into a large, drawn-out essay and had just said "been there, done that, got bitten by mosquitoes, saw a moose one time, that was cool" rather than opening with an attention-grabbing anecdote of an eagle attack that turned out to be 3 grumpy owls, going off on tangents about running through the wilderness to get away from an ex boyfriend, her spiritual connection with the breeze at the end of her stay when the world seemed to be "alive with so much dance." It also wouldn't have been that interesting, to me at least.