You came to the woods because you wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if you could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when you came to die, discover that you had not lived.
The Walden Paradox is a solo journaling game about Thoreau’s final months at Walden Pond from May 1846 to September 1847.
Each month, a new visitor will call upon you. Converse with them. Keep a keen eye for both peculiarities and signs of time paradoxes. Record everything in your journal. The game ends either at the 6th time paradox or when your time at Walden ends in September — whichever comes first.
Then, you will write a final letter to your friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"I liked that I have learned that the capital of a man is not in money but in purpose, and the advertisement of a life well lived is in living it, not in declaring it. I disliked that I am now convinced that life as I knew it is a mirage, or a mirror, or a mistake, and that time as a construct is very likely a lie, or at least a calculated misdirection. "
"The Walden Paradox is an arrestingly beautiful document."
A5, staple-bound, approximately 36 pages. Color cover. Back and white inside.
Purchase of this print version includes a digital download key for the PDF version via itch.io. The download key will be printed and included with your order. It will not be emailed. Check inside the front cover.
You came to the woods because you wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if you could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when you came to die, discover that you had not lived.
The Walden Paradox is a solo journaling game about Thoreau’s final months at Walden Pond from May 1846 to September 1847.
Each month, a new visitor will call upon you. Converse with them. Keep a keen eye for both peculiarities and signs of time paradoxes. Record everything in your journal. The game ends either at the 6th time paradox or when your time at Walden ends in September — whichever comes first.
Then, you will write a final letter to your friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"I liked that I have learned that the capital of a man is not in money but in purpose, and the advertisement of a life well lived is in living it, not in declaring it. I disliked that I am now convinced that life as I knew it is a mirage, or a mirror, or a mistake, and that time as a construct is very likely a lie, or at least a calculated misdirection. "
"The Walden Paradox is an arrestingly beautiful document."
A5, staple-bound, approximately 36 pages. Color cover. Back and white inside.
Purchase of this print version includes a digital download key for the PDF version via itch.io. The download key will be printed and included with your order. It will not be emailed. Check inside the front cover.
