The Readers' Thoreau | Gaetano M. | Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/ninodusty/activity/ Activity feed for Gaetano M.. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:26:03 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9745da3ce3ac23b8924ce6307f70f2f5 Gaetano M. started the topic "Darn-it-how-he-nicks-’em" in the forum Translating Thoreau https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/groups/translating-thoreau/forum/topic/darn-it-how-he-nicks-em-4/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:49:41 -0500

“Just previous to immersion they [the ducks] seemed to give each other a significant nod, and then, as if by common consent, ’twas heels up and head down in the shaking of a duck wing; and when they reappeared, it was amusing to observe with what a self satisfied, darn-it-how-he-nicks-’em air they paddled off to repeat the experiment.” – Journal, O…

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]]> 0 78d798ff111ae5122c9bf4d0d3b3579d Gaetano M. replied to the topic From Ali, Thoreau's translator in Iran in the forum Translating Thoreau https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/groups/translating-thoreau/forum/topic/from-ali-thoreaus-translator-in-iran/#post-2971 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:23:02 -0500 Dear Mr. Taghdarreh,
I don’t think that my personal story is worth any interest, and the same goes for the way I discovered Thoreau, which I think was very ordinary; but beacause you ask I’ll try to answer, being as brief as possible. I read Walden for the first time when I was about 15, unaware of how that book would have accompanied me for the…[Read more]

]]> 0 96683448a50300bbeaf493312fc6aca3 Gaetano M. replied to the topic From Ali, Thoreau's translator in Iran in the forum Translating Thoreau https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/groups/translating-thoreau/forum/topic/from-ali-thoreaus-translator-in-iran/#post-2968 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 01:13:58 -0500 I’ve already done it privately but, being this my first post, I’d like to publicly thank Professor Paul Schacht <a href="http://@digitalthoreau“>@digitalthoreau for having opened this group after my request. I hope it will be a place for translators all over the world to help each other in their effort of conveying Thoreus’s words and ideas into…[Read more]

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