... I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he {who claimed never to have learned anything of value from an old person} was an enemy and not a friend. His scorn of commerce--invigorating to me--nettled a lot of the more vocal kids in Honors English. "Yeah, right," shouted an obnoxious boy whose hair was gelled and combed stiff like a Dragon Ball Z character--"some kind of world it would be if every-body just dropped out and moped around in the woods--
( Donna Tartt )
[ The Goldfinch ]
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