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BOOKS / Thoreau’s Worst Nightmare : Self-Denial as Self-Promotion

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Illustration by Maurice Vellekoop / Mother Jones. The most notorious neo-Thoreauvian might be Colin Beavan, a 45-year-old New Yorker better known as No Impact Man, and even better known as The Man Who Doesn’t Let His Wife Use Toilet Paper. … Continue reading →

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