"He is the richest, " Henry Thoreau wrote, "who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes(metaphor,metonymy, synecdoche and irony) and symbols with which to describe his life. Clearly, Thereau was the wealthiest man in Concord. We find that the journal was a work of art in itself." Note: Chinese calligraphy is a form of art. "We see his pioneer interest in Native Americans,(Note:American Indians were Asians) and his disgust with men who spoke vulgarly of women, his religious devotion to his task." Thoreau earned a modest living as a surveyor. What could the businessmen of Concord have offered him? He already had the whole world. -Michael Sims via bookworld@washpost.com Comment: Men of letters can have the mind of global context.
Here we can find Sino-American economics of raw materials and wealth with magnitude of literature centuries ago.
"Shoptimism"by Lee Eisenberg Free Press 334 pp. $26
Sub-title: Why the American Consumer will keep on buying no matter what- attributable to the lifestyle via advertising plus credit system in USA?
Here we detect the difference of custom and tradition of more than half of the population of farmers in China as a case of point.
Washington Best Sellers Paperback:
No. 3 "Freakonomics" (Harper Perennial, $15.99 Exploring behavioral economics -revised and expanded. To be continued in the next blog.
Francis Shieh aka Xie Shihao on Sunday,January 3, 2010 at 4.16 p.m.
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