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Originally Posted by waves
It does? I found a similar citation from Thoreau's Walden (which I had to look up), but the lines are not identical:
Roger Waters: " Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"
Henry David Thoreau: " The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
I also found an essay comparing the social views of the two, but nothing to indicate Waters was referencing Thoreau?
http://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/theamerican...24_117-132.pdf
waves |
Waves,
You are exactly right. Their social views are not the same.
And Walters is a better thinker than Thoreau (who wrote garbage).
I made the comment only because I was digging through the lyrics.
I believe that they both were using versions of quotes/ statements of people who came before them.
M (crawling away from a sidetrack)