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Tonight at the reference desk a student asked me to read this section from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden:

Any prospect of awakening or coming to life to a dead man makes indifferent all times and places The place where that may occur is always the same and indescribably pleasant to all our senses For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions They are in fact the cause of our distraction Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being Next to us the grand
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Walden By Henry David Thoreau, Clifton Johnson

He asked me what I thought it meant. He wanted to talk through his ideas. I talked to him about the passage, and recommended some resources for critical analysis and research.

Related Resources:

Ogden, M. A., Keller, C., & Thoreau, H. D. (1985). Walden, a concordance. Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 557. New York: Garland Pub.

  • Cady, L. (1961). Thoreau’s quotations from the Confucian books in WaldenAmerican Literature, 33, (1), pp. 20-32.
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Written by Darren

November 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

Posted in music, reference

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