Comments on: Napenthe – By Patrick Bohnenkamp

By: Patrick Bohnenkamp

Patrick Bohnenkamp — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:41:11 +0000

Thanks for the comments. The title was a last minute thing and I’m not really diggin’ it. .

By: Faerie Kat

Faerie Kat — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:53:26 +0000

I can see, Bettany, that I am finally going to have to force myself to read Into the Woods; what a great quote! That’s what attending 3 different universities will get you in the end – unforgivable gaps.

By: Bettany 17

Bettany 17 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:24:09 +0000

This is a modern day Into the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry D. Thoreau

A great thinking piece of writing and one not soon forgotten. Well done!

By: Faerie Kat

Faerie Kat — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:31:05 +0000

I’m totally fascinating by your concept of escaping from the sterile and unsatisfying “unreality” of a conventionally successful life by returning to nature, even if it means trading in that comfortable life for the “reality” of what many seek desperately to escape, homelessness. I’m confused, however, by the title; nepenthe, meaning “the one that chases away sorrow,” makes some sense as a title in that his weekends are his choice drug of forgetfulness, but I don’t have any reference for napenthe and so am left to wonder.