The Readers' Thoreau | Dillon Murphy | Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/dillonmurphy/activity/ Activity feed for Dillon Murphy. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:11:11 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 107b23afb81f8499c110bd85fd4bba46 Dillon Murphy left a comment on a post The Pond in Winter 1-10 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-pond-in-winter/the-pond-in-winter-1-10/#comment-2372 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:04:04 -0500 Thoreau is clearly taking a moment to  brag about not only his ingenuity in measuring Walden’s depth but his initiative in taking the time to do so and in turn proving so many people wrong. The last line is of […]

]]> 0 c8916ad0212ca6d8b85e3bdf16825d04 Dillon Murphy left a comment on a post Baker Farm in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/baker-farm/#comment-2354 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:11:30 -0500 Here we can see the importance of Thoreau’s ideas of waking his neighbors up, and the disappointment he experiences when they choose to stay asleep.  In response to Daisy, he’s probably harsh because he feels […]

]]> 0 5153cc1aa566a7c949338bd226478ad8 Dillon Murphy left a comment on a post The Bean-Field 1-8 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-bean-field/the-bean-field-1-8/#comment-2329 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:00:18 -0500 If we agree that Thoreau’s experiment of living in the woods was not a call for everyone to follow in his footsteps but to find their own way to the happiness of simplicity, it’s easy to imagine this paragraph […]

]]> 0 c38f8dc50ff2c1b58d3aa31479b9dab0 Dillon Murphy left a comment on a post Economy 59-70 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-59-70/#comment-2268 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:09:51 -0500 Though Thoreau seems to respect the closeness with nature and simple lives of the local native populations, here he is much harsher toward them. Referring to them as savages and degenerates, one can’t help but […]

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