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Story · United States · 1854

Walden

Walden

60Watch it awake.

The cabin was an experiment he left, and the argument is what stayed.

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The review

He built a house by a pond, kept the accounts, and said most of what people call a living is a distraction. I read it tired, after the dishes, which is a fair test. The cabin is not a family. It is an experiment. He walked back into town. If you wanted a man who stayed and raised people there, this is the wrong book.

The beans are not the reason. The book is. A house can read it without pretending we are about to quit the street and copy the pond. What he offers is a count of what a life spends. I don't buy every refusal, and I don't need to. The accounts are the part that still argues with the week.

Journal

Keep Walden in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Courage are the thin ones.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 2Household
  3. 7Piety
  4. 4Courage
  5. 5Republic
  6. 9Temperance
  7. 8Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    He built the cabin and kept accounts, then doubted most livings.

  2. 2
    Household

    The cabin is an experiment, not a marriage or a child.

  3. 7
    Piety

    His conscience refuses the living the town calls necessary.

  4. 4
    Courage

    He spent two years by the pond, then walked back into town.

  5. 5
    Republic

    He owes the town an argument, not his labor beside a neighbor.

  6. 9
    Temperance

    The book asks you to want less of what people call a living.

  7. 8
    Truth

    He kept the accounts; the beans are not the claim he is making.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    What he left is the book, not a household still at the pond.

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Write down one week's costs and mark which ones he would call a distraction.

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Story · Italy · 1883

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio

60Watch it awake.

Collodi's puppet runs, lies, and is nearly a donkey; the cartoon is the soft memory.

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The review

He is not good at the start. Carlo Collodi, 1883. A puppet runs away, lies, and is nearly turned into a donkey. A cricket warns him. The nose is the bill for the lie. I grew up on the later cartoon, and this is harder than that memory. A child can read it. I would not pretend the songs are in the book.

Running away is the pleasure he wants, and the book will not let it stay pleasant. Nearly a donkey is a body paying for the life he chose. I won't add scenes past the running, the lie, and that near change. The cricket's warning is there before he takes it. If we read this, we say the lie has a bill you can see on the face, and we don't sand it down into a film we remember being cute.

Journal

Keep The Adventures of Pinocchio in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

  1. 5Industry
  2. 7Household
  3. 6Piety
  4. 4Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 8Temperance
  7. 9Truth
  8. 5Stewardship

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

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Consider this

War and Peace

70 instead of 60

War and Peace is still a novel film, and it scores 70 instead of 60. What you gain is republic: Russia in the years of Napoleon; the war belongs to the country.

The eight

  1. 5
    Industry

    He runs away, and the book treats that flight as the failed work.

  2. 7
    Household

    A puppet runs off, and a cricket has to give the warning.

  3. 6
    Piety

    The cricket warns him, and at the start he is not good enough to hear.

  4. 4
    Courage

    He runs away and lies, and is nearly turned into a donkey for it.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A boy's disobedience, not a debt he pays to a town or a law.

  6. 8
    Temperance

    The fun of running off is checked by nearly becoming a donkey.

  7. 9
    Truth

    The nose is the bill for the lie, and the book is harder than the cartoon.

  8. 5
    Stewardship

    Left on him: a nose that marks the lie, and a body nearly a donkey.

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Tell them this is Collodi's book, then read where the lie is billed on his nose.

Where to read

Finding the page.

Live Historic · The Adventures of Pinocchio · 60IMDb

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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