Capitolo 43
mentioned--a kind of Thoreau not inspired. Its name was Benjamin Lear.
Then as his/her madness it went, it is probable that he would have been a direct descendant of
that kings of venerable old man of Britain that it shows up on the page of Shakespeare. Family
dissents made a prison inmate of King Lear; but in the case of Benjamin
there were no circumstances that mitigate. He didn't have any family to shake
him, and its kingdom was undivided. He possessed an excellent farm on the
southern side of Stream of Sagamore, a small to the west of the bridge, and
you/he/she would have lived to ease, if I comfort personal you/he/she had not been disgusting
to him. I comfort personal it entered any part of Lear. Being alone
filled the small pint-measure of his/her desire. He hid him in
an unfortunate hovel, and blocked the door, figuredly against all the
world. Wealth--what would have been wealth to him--disposition inside his/her course,
but him the push it apart; he disdained luxury as him it disdained the idleness,
and it didn't make compromise with convention. When a man cuts him
absolutely adrift from custom, that that a surprisingly light face to fists
be him/it floating! As few they are his/her lacks, later everything! Lear was of a happy
disposition, and it seems to have been completely harmless--to a distance.
He manufactured his/her his/her own suits, and it mainly sustained him on the milk and
potatoes, the product of his/her kingdom. He had need of nothing but an island to
is a Robinson Crusoe. To rare intervals he fluttered as a cold-bitten
the apparition through the principal road of Portsmouth that him always
designated as "the Bank", a name that was become obsolete fifty or a
one hundred years before. This way, for almost a quarter of one century, Benjamin
Lear was standing to distance from relationships human. In his the maturity some of the
neighbors offered him refuge during the tempestuous months in winter; but
he would not have none of him--he challenged wind and time. There he placed in
his/her falling hovel in his/her last illness, refusing to allow some one to