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Readers reflect on the harsh realities of leaving it all for the woods
Original: "The thing about fucking off to the woods is that unless you are a very particular, very rare sort of person, it does no
Book lovers are sharing a passage from Becky Chambers' 'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy' observing that retreating to the woods quickly reveals why people left them in the first place, unless you happen to be a rare sort of person suited to solitude. The line is being passed around as a Sunday sentence in reading communities, resonating with anyone who has fantasised about escaping modern life.
Why now: The quote taps into widespread fantasies about escaping to nature, while puncturing them with a wry truth.
Becky ChambersA Prayer for the Crown-ShyBookstodon
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