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Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Sounds 1-11 in the group
General Discussion: 10 years, 9 months agoThe intimacy of this passage is troublingly Quixotic, and I love it. I personally feel a bit of good-natured prodding from Thoreau, like a friend berating you for posting on your exercise blog instead of hopping […]
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Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group
General Discussion: 10 years, 9 months agoAnd not only do we as humans leave marks, but all living things leave marks: dogs, leaves, birds. And, like human love, we must also remain open to the impressions of the living world.
Thoreau’s interest in the […]
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Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 10-19 in the group
General Discussion: 10 years, 9 months ago“The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it.”
I found this passage to be spectacularly beautiful, and incredibly optimistic. Instead of the slow decay […]
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Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 10-19 in the group
General Discussion: 10 years, 9 months agoHannah, I also find this passage exciting!
Something Thoreau also mentions here, that I think is worth adding on to your observations is the idea of sacrifice. In this anecdote, the artist’s friends desert him […]
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Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group
General Discussion: 10 years, 9 months ago“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”
I found this moment on of the most […]
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Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post The Pond in Winter 11-21 in the group
General Discussion: 10 years, 9 months agoThe Valhalla of Thoreau’s wintertime observations completely alters the mood of the piece. While a solitary Northeastern winter is generally portrayed as cold and lifeless, Thoreau views it as majestic, bright, […]
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How punny is it, when a book is subtitled “Life in the Woods,” and ends with a story about a moth that was alive in the wood of an old applewood table?