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- Comment on Reading by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Olivia Kelly. @livilelly Your excellent summary of this paragraph highlights for me a connection we discussed in class: Thoreau wants us to read with the same deliberation and attentiveness that he wants us to bring to our observations of Nature. In the first paragraph of the […]
- Comment on Sounds 12-22 by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Avery. @averyw Your comment made me look back at this chapter and notice something new. It's always struck me as interesting that for all his criticism of the railway in this chapter, including the way it snorts and screams, he's impressed by it as a vehicle […]
- Comment on The Village by Paul SchachtPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo In reply to Tori Webster. @toriwebster I really like it, too! It's interesting that although Thoreau writes many long sentences and long paragraphs, leading some readers to find him long-winded at times, his prose is also chock full of highly quotable nuggets like this one. (This one is quoted […]
- Comment on The Village by Tori WebsterPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo [Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.] I really like this quote, and I think it brings up a good point about self-discovery. […]
- Comment on Reading by Olivia KellyPosted in: ENGL 340 S26 Geneseo Leave a comment on paragraph 115 [It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really bear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and […]