and I think ready for a surge in popularity. A friend recently said she only skinny dips in her bath tub and it reminded me of this essay.
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ON BEING NAKED
NUDISM has come to America, I am told. Let it come! I
just fail to see what harm it can do. I have been a nudist all
my life without my knowing it.
Now it should be clearly understood at the beginning that
I am a reasonable nudist, as against the doctrinaire and fa
natic nudists, as I always am a reasonable vegetarian as dis
tinguished from the fanatic vegetarians. Like all Chinese,
and following the old doctrine of the Golden Mean, I am all
for nudism at certain hours and in certain circumstances, in
the bathtub, for instance, but I am dead against going down
Broadway in the native garb my mother gave me. I can hon
estly
tell you that it is beautiful to feel naked in one's bath (that's all
I could find online) It's in the book "with love and irony"
His famous book is "The importance of
living". He is 'phenomenal genius guy' of mine, because for all his
smarts he still lives as he pleases. He wrote this about wisdom‘The wisest man is therefore he who loafs most gracefully.’
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On Wisdom: ‘The wisest man is therefore he who loafs most gracefully.’