The Readers' Thoreau | Molly Cavanaugh | Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/mollymackenzie/activity/ Activity feed for Molly Cavanaugh. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:11:11 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 21c2350484ad99c3a218bed00b7ab249 Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Sounds 1-11 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/sounds/sounds-1-11/#comment-1464 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:28:29 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 3bbf9dcd4e6e626fd236a0661155763d Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/conclusion/conclusion-1-9/#comment-1463 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:15:10 -0500 And 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 […]

]]> 0 87f8ab89e25fd3de4de1a232eeee2523 Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 10-19 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/conclusion/conclusion-10-19/#comment-1462 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:10:02 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 0418b44fff2b37d1ad1a0825d043154d Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 10-19 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/conclusion/conclusion-10-19/#comment-1460 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:03:20 -0500 Hannah, 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 […]

]]> 1 ac5248d30f8a766b7045f7d4ae1c6343 Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post Conclusion 1-9 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/conclusion/conclusion-1-9/#comment-1458 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 04:19:29 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 a6cdb6e379e3c2354b1abba0da0f1b5a Molly Cavanaugh left a comment on a post The Pond in Winter 11-21 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-pond-in-winter/the-pond-in-winter-11-21/#comment-1457 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 03:51:42 -0500 The 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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