The Readers' Thoreau | Michael Frederick | Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/mikef/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Frederick. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:26:03 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 79511e916527bd2cc6f66cae7d0076a2 Michael Frederick left a comment on a post The Bean-Field 9-17 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-bean-field/the-bean-field-9-17/#comment-5450 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:48:50 -0500 “I felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish…” This is an example of the Dionysian in Thoreau.  He is swept up by the martial spirit of music from the village and feels himself capable of violence […]

]]> 0 73e594324758bf94f18fd60b99133aa3 Michael Frederick left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5449 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:38:52 -0500 That’s why Thoreau says: “We are not wholly involved in Nature.” The “dancer” and “Nature” desist from the dance.  Thoreau’s double consciousness is of himself engaged in the “field of action,” as HDT, where he […]

]]> 0 1bd2e3c5be5adba6e988e7c5efe7b8f0 Michael Frederick left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5448 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:27:57 -0500 The dichotomy, me and not-me, and the “spectator” is relatable to the Contact passage in “Ktaadn,” where Thoreau distinguishes between spirit (which he says “I am one”) and matter (which he says “has possession of […]

]]> 0 be71946955fefe286314d58acd12806f Michael Frederick left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5446 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:54:13 -0500 Also, see:  https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/docs/frederick-transcendental-ethos-a-study-of-thoreaus-social-philosophy/

Victor Cousins is discussed in “Transcendental Ethos,” page 22.

]]> 0 9493bf44780bed7227cbdce60d7d7aac Michael Frederick left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5444 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:38:44 -0500 I’m unaware of anyone having pointed this out in the literature about Thoreau, but the “grooved walking stick” in this paragraph is related to the central motif of the book, “Walden” Read para 5 and 11 in […]

]]> 0 3ae7c10e2253bef04c2d1f099ca40cce Michael Frederick left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 13-23 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-13-23/#comment-5443 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:25:06 -0500 Compare “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” and paragraph 11, the […]

]]> 0 7a42d4a5f3c7d4ed7bd4906a8d2295f3 Michael Frederick left a comment on a post Solitude in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5442 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:19:01 -0500 For the “spectator,” see Sankhya Karika by Ishvara Krishna.  Allen Hodder in his book, “Ecstatic Witness,” identifies the “Karika” as a source for this passage.  I would add that the passage is related to E […]

]]> 0 aed57214a02e9bb028d26b33a8e794be Michael Frederick joined the group Thoreau Scholarship https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/87756/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:07:39 -0500 0 1d58a9cc0ca8052fb81d445517a7bdf1 Michael Frederick changed their profile picture https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/87750/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:18:30 -0500 0 cd5afce1428425e368b810d2f12c58e1 Michael Frederick left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-1594 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:36:13 -0500 Test comment.

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