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Christine O'Neill left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion: 10 years, 7 months ago
[visitors have been there and left their cards, either a bunch of flowers, or a wreath of evergreen, or a name in pencil on a yellow walnut leaf or a chip] So Thoreau had groupies even in his own time. I wasn’t […]
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Christine O'Neill left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group General Discussion: 10 years, 7 months ago
This is very inspirational and eloquent, and I’m surprised it’s not quoted more often. But I think Thoreau addresses a (false) criticism that comes up a lot — “poets/kids/communication/education/etc. just aren’t […]
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Christine O'Neill left a comment on a post The Village in the group General Discussion: 10 years, 7 months ago
[I was seized and put into jail] Wow, I love how Thoreau just breezes over the fact that he was incarcerated for tax evasion. Considering the man can spend an entire chapter detailing the adventures of a […]
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Christine O'Neill left a comment on a post Higher Laws in the group General Discussion: 10 years, 7 months ago
[the laws of the universe] I’m taking an philosophy course called “Ethical Theory,” which is fascinating. Before reading this paragraph, I would have pegged Thoreau for an ethical relativist — that is, someone […]
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Christine O'Neill left a comment on a post House-Warming 1-9 in the group General Discussion: 10 years, 7 months ago
I was looking at the Fluid Text Edition of Walden and it turns out that the first few paragraphs of this chapter — the ones describing his activities according to the months — were added only in the […]
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Christine O'Neill commented on the post, Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 13-23, on the site Walden 10 years, 9 months ago
I think you’ve done a great job of summing up Thoreau’s sentiments here. Yet, for someone who apparently has become such a trailblazer for social justice and civil rights movements, how could he say, “If you’ve […]
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Christine O'Neill left a comment on a post Winter Animals in the group General Discussion: 10 years, 9 months ago
[The squirrels also]
In the Princeton Edition of the manuscript (the original), Thoreau preceded this sentence with, “All the emotions and the life of the squirrel imply spectators.” During his first revision, […]
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Christine O'Neill left a comment on a post The Bean-Field 9-17 in the group General Discussion: 10 years, 10 months ago
[Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and others to trade in London or New York, I thus, with the other farmers of New […]
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