It was a discovery of enormous magnitude and considering the quakes that would reverberate through the literary community it caught the interest of many scholars. The investigation went on for weeks as biographers, anthropologists and sex therapists wandered through the mud deep into the woods to a tiny shack, to
the
tiny shack. Once there they studied the writings on abandoned manuscripts, the notes scribbled on the rickety furniture and the odd and sometimes obscene poetry written on the walls. Handwriting and literary experts who studied the penmanship and the writing styles confirmed what everyone else had wondered, had guessed, had wished for: this shack was indeed the very shack inhabited by Henry David Thoreau's third cousin Marcus Attabury Troy while living and writing his not so classic, almost masterpiece
Condom
.
While it is well known that the house Thoreau built on Walden Pond was given to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who sold it to his gardener, who later sold it to two farmers who eventually dismantled the home for scrap lumber, the existence of the shack was a long hidden episode in the Walden drama. The shack his cousin built on Condom Pond remained a myth known only to the most dedicated and knowledgeable historians. Only with the discovery of this shack could the scholars confirm their suspicions about Thoreau's supposedly solitary life at Walden.
The fact that Thoreau often strolled into town and entertained guests at his house on Walden Pond during the time he wrote of his solitary life is well documented, but what he did with his lady guests was only rumored until now. The evidence now seems to confirm the rumors that something else was going on there. According to the rumors, it seems that cousin Marcus' shack on Condom Pond was only a short hike from Thoreau's house and in the day, there existed a well worn path between the two abodes, a path often taken by Thoreau and his lady loves.
It was at Marcus' shack that Thoreau supposedly carried out exquisite and perverse congress with his lady friends, all diligently recorded in Marcus' journals. With Marcus' sketches and stories of wild debauchery, the infamous "Hank David" became the first well known porn star of the young United States. While the study of artifacts found at the shack may, hopefully, confirm the rumors that "Hank David" was, in fact, Henry David Thoreau, literary experts are deeply engrossed in reading all of Marcus Troy's ancient pornography.
Of course, many people are already convinced of the true identity of "Hank David" and even skeptics agree that some of the sexual vocabulary used in modern times hints at Thoreau's sexuality. Consider that the phrase often used by pornographers today, "He fucked her thoroughly," was originally spelled, "He fucked her Thoreauly," and "fuck a duck," was originally, "fuck a duchess," possibly referring to Thoreau's dalliances with a well known duchess.