The Readers' Thoreau | Raina Schoen Thomas | Friends Activity https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/members/rainast/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Raina Schoen Thomas's friends. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:47 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 af14134a87ae73f301665c40f7b117f3 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Walking 1-15 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walking/walking/walking-1-15/#comment-228 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:28:05 -0500 Being part and parcel of Nature imprisons man and reduces him to a limited and lower level of existence.  In Nature, Emerson rises above nature and says, ““Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its ho […]

]]> 0 42c488b7eb4400bc71c3077ac651bd60 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Walking 1-15 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walking/walking/walking-1-15/#comment-225 Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:04:34 -0500 [Half the walk is but retracing our steps.]

It was this far reaching vision of Henry Thoreau who brought him to my literature and culture in Iran. I am Thoreau’s Iranian translator. Thoreau did not wish to […]

]]> 0 13053f47e6d5c4638f719187ae5178bf Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 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-1-12/#comment-6542 Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:02:31 -0500 I have been speaking about Thoreau with American scholars for almost 15 years. You put it very beautifully: “Communication is not a physical item, but it is something that can be shared between two people.” For 15 […]

]]> 0 ec293d4600325f1c449990a673b805a2 Alireza Taghdarreh 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-2970 Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:41:17 -0500 Dear Gaetano, It was one of my dreams to speak with other translators of Walden across the world. I am thankful to Dr. Sacht for providing this opportunity for us. Thank you very much for your very kind words about me. Thoreau was a great inspiration in my life.

Is it possible for you to read a passage from Walden in Italian for me? I would ve…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cccb7528ec7a5ae23408d45c7e80d9f Alireza Taghdarreh started 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/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:35:43 -0500 I am very glad and thankful for being invited to this group. I have been studying and analyzing Walden for almost 15 years. I have many notes and comments I would love to share. I would also love to hear from other Thoreau translators across the globe. I had always dreamed of such a discussion between Thoreau’s translators in different l…[Read more]

]]> 0 ecd436f2fd6c8b05e19a6b9636391ad8 Alireza Taghdarreh joined the group Translating Thoreau https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/202725/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:25:46 -0500 0 0aa3682fe0029c1c96c3d15e1140749b Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Economy 1-14 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/economy/economy-1-14/#comment-6504 Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:19:50 -0500 Had it not been for the wonders of Technology I would not have been able to study Thoreau from Iran. Technology made it possible to connect to Thoreau scholars in the US and and use their knowledge and wisdom to […]

]]> 0 f34c6f8bfcfa14cb054b2667eb9ed806 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post The Village in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/the-village/#comment-5826 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 02:42:18 -0500 Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homœopathic […]

]]> 0 9973b8b8ab235dae5ec54355510274a3 Ricky Noel and Raina Schoen Thomas are now friends https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/73739/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:12:02 -0500 0 5988edf456c6fb198e4bcbafdea3e96e Ricky Noel commented on the page, on the site Walden https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5350 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 01:29:41 -0500 Thoreau’s diction here is an absolutely brilliant introduction to the chapter. The sensory images he evokes through his appropriately economical use of language, from sounds like “the bullfrogs trump[ing] to ush […]

]]> 61a9dedd6f9f4f9f6353f00412474f3c Ricky Noel commented on the page, on the site Walden https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/solitude/#comment-5349 Thu, 15 Nov 2018 01:01:37 -0500 I’m afraid that I have to respectfully disagree with you, here. I do understand how out of context, Thoreau’s comments that he believes he is “favored by the gods” could read as conceited, but I believe that in […]

]]> 7a97eb9c3ee4c78fece24ff556ec9a49 Ricky Noel became a registered member https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/activity/p/72298/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:31:16 -0500 0 3d12585805c85e943d09c84801b85924 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Spring 1-13 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/spring/spring-1-13/#comment-4716 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:51:34 -0500 Long before leaves appear on trees, they reveal themselves in sands to Thoreau. To him sands and stones are as alive as leaves and trees. It seems to me that Thoreau is watching what Emerson called the Oversoul […]

]]> 0 0f23c7ec8bef9d6a6ec204fcebdc1949 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Spring 1-13 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/spring/spring-1-13/#comment-4715 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:52:40 -0500 Jayant, I had a terribly difficult time translating this particular passage. I remember that, through a scholar friend in Japan and another in Korea, I even looked at the way the Japanese and Korean translators […]

]]> 0 3e12793f278c44ce4ed036aed882c68e Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post SIM 46-50 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/slavery/slavery-in-massachusetts/sim-46-50/#comment-21 Sat, 05 May 2018 01:47:30 -0500 [ Leave a comment on paragraph 48 0 I walk toward one of our ponds; but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?]

According to Muslim rules, every Muslim is required to wash his or her hands, […]

]]> 0 d8a467beaf36eae1917773f863dcf383 Alireza Taghdarreh commented on the page, on the site Walking https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walking/walking/walking-1-15/#comment-39 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 13:36:47 -0500 I believe, as is Thoreau’s habit in writing, he has different but close meanings in mind. I think “for” in “for nature” can carry all the following meanings:

 

12. in favor of; on the side of: to be for […]

]]> 03cabfe8a5b3c3af14ea3adea65eeab9 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Title Page - 1862 in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walking/#comment-2 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 08:29:22 -0500 Are there going to be discussions on walking here? Like Walden?

]]> 0 153f2d910789ebcc4b4c9190a75d05c6 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 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-1-12/#comment-4384 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:32:29 -0500 We are having a wonderful time with Thoreau in our discussion groups in Iran. We find this to be an extremely subtle sentence: “It was not so much within doors as behind a door where I sat” First, it shows that […]

]]> 0 339039d8dd8a20678f18aad8ec9496a3 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 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-1-12/#comment-4380 Sun, 26 Nov 2017 06:47:50 -0500 Henrik, I can’t tell you how happy I am to be among you and read your comment. Forgive me for my late reply. My decade long journey in Walden has only added to a sweet sense of amazement and wondering. Walden […]

]]> 0 a810979ca3fbe830e01ca067269c52fe Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 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-1-12/#comment-4374 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:59:03 -0500 Thoreau is a great admirer of the Greek mythology, but his admiration is not absolute. His critical spirit reaches even this part of the Greek culture. I believe that the sentence “I never heard what compensation […]

]]> 0 879607e5af531add409fd43b379047b9 Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 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-1-12/#comment-4282 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:33:34 -0500 It should be remembered that when T says, “it surpassed my arithmetic to tell, if I was that man who had ten cents, or who had a farm, or ten dollars, or all together.” He is doing this whole calculation using […]

]]> 0 bbf3369d3c85131d32932d2122c6fe2b Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 1-12 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-1-12/#comment-4271 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:48:20 -0500 We have an ongoing discussion on this chapter in Iran based on my Persian translation. It is hard for us to imagine that Thoreau is merely referring to early adulthood by the phrase “at a certain season of our […]

]]> 0 7dfc6c8f596c6d552797e96297e8c88e Alireza Taghdarreh left a comment on a post Reading in the group General Discussion https://commons.digitalthoreau.org/walden/reading/#comment-3746 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 03:05:33 -0500 One of the things that connects Thoreau to me as an Iranian is his interest in the books in other cultures. I must say it had a very fundamental role in creating this huge interest in him. He studied Sa’di’s […]

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