Keating's marrow line: Walden

John Keating (Robin Williams)

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What it tells you

Thoreau's line about living deep and sucking out all the marrow of life becomes the club's mission statement. He wrote it after two years in a cabin by a pond. The boys upgrade to a cave and a curfew violation.

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Walden

Henry David Thoreau · 1854 · nonfiction

Published in 1854. Thoreau's pond is in Concord, Massachusetts, a few hours south of a Vermont school that doesn't let its boys leave campus without a pass.

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