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  • Where I Lived, And What I Lived For 13-23 (1 comment)

    • Comment by Arlette Alvarez on February 24, 2025

      “We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.”

      This quote comes off in a very positive light, and is something that I believe a lot of people even to this day try to live by, yet it feels weakened by Thoreau’s decisions moving forward with his writing. Just four paragraphs later after setting up this sort of hope for a very beautiful way of treating life, he speaks out against news and the post office in general! Paragraph 19 seems to come from an entirely different viewpoint, which does not show this same appreciation, and that is very interesting to me! Does the negativity that most journalism carries actively contrast strongly enough with his positive views that it threatens their validity?

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