In "Reading" we learn in this little chapter that books are not going to be a large part of Thoreau's experiment. It is not all books that are as dull as their...
Jeffrey A. Taylor
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Aug 28, 2000 2:50 am
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As a postscript to "Reading" it seems like a worthwhile activity to begin to develop an understanding of Thoreau's theory of knowledge. This e-mail will only...
Jeffrey A. Taylor
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Sep 3, 2000 9:38 pm
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For the past couple of months I have been collecting information about the women of Concord and of Transcendentalism, those women who were constantly around...
athenairis@...
Sep 12, 2000 11:22 pm
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Paul Draper
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Sep 13, 2000 5:54 am
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I was most taken by the image of Thoreau sitting in his open cabin door, meditating. "Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat ...
Jeffrey A. Taylor
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Sep 14, 2000 1:37 am
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Emerson's _Nature_ might be instructive in helping us understand Thoreau's understanding of the real, since the work was influential upon him and Thoreau read...
Jeffrey A. Taylor
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Sep 20, 2000 2:45 am
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Emerson's _Nature_ might be instructive in helping us understand Thoreau's understanding of the real, since the work was influential upon him and Thoreau read...
Jeffrey Taylor
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Sep 20, 2000 2:49 am
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On October 4, 1859, HDT wrote in his diary: P.M. To Conantum. How interesting now, by wall-sides and on open springy hillsides, the large straggling tufts of...
max gabrielson
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Oct 4, 2000 11:34 pm
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The Journal, October 12, 1858: I have heard of judges accidentally met at an evening party, discussing the efficacy of laws and courts, and deciding that with...
max gabrielson
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Oct 9, 2000 6:58 pm
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Hello, everybody. (I write to you in a state of inflamed rage, so forgive me if that feeling permeates into the message.) As a result of a web search for the...
Diego M. Dell'Era
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Oct 16, 2000 2:13 am
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ekology minded nazis?! genius! i'd join that group simply for irony! aleks my SEE and EKS don't work...
XMortiisX@...
Oct 16, 2000 2:33 am
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It is an interesting twist to think that these individuals can claim their ideology from a man that undoubtedly inspired Mohondes K. Gandhi and his efforts in...
Shaughn Uebinger
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Oct 16, 2000 5:08 pm
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In a message dated 10/16/00 10:10:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time, shaughnu@... writes: << It is an interesting twist to think that these individuals can...
athenairis@...
Oct 16, 2000 8:28 pm
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... Diego: These kinds of folks are best ignored. It would be infra dignitatem even to bother communicating with them. Max Gabrielson...
max gabrielson
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Oct 16, 2000 10:13 pm
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Discussions of Thoreau's social relationships versus the importance of solitude seem to abound when we try to understand _Walden_. Our thoughts seem to focus...
Jeffrey A. Taylor
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Nov 25, 2000 7:00 pm
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does anyone have the e-text of thoreau's poem that begins "I went to the woods because i wanted to live deliberately"? if so could you please send it to me? ...
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Nov 25, 2000 8:24 pm
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I know it's OT, insofar as the group is going over chapters of WALDEN, but I have a question pertinent to my particular interest in HDT. (He's one of the few...
Gubster Bug
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Nov 28, 2000 9:36 pm
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... Mr Bug: Welcome to our list. Welcome also to others who have recently subscribed. Rest assured that nothing is really off theme (I'm assuming OT = off...
max gabrielson
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Nov 29, 2000 5:31 am
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"Visitors" is a compelling, short essay within Walden. Thoreau has spent the previous five chapters describing his project of withdrawing from society, moving...
Jeffrey A. Taylor
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Jan 14, 2001 8:34 pm
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... Jeffrey: It's interesting how the chapter entitled Visitors is a kind of companion chapter (no pun intended) to Solitude, the one which precedes it....
max gabrielson
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Jan 16, 2001 5:31 am
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Visitors and Solitude do seem to be companion essays. Are they related by some internal connection, some logical connection of spirit or are they an ordered...
Jeffrey A. Taylor
jefftaylor@...
Jan 23, 2001 3:00 am
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Emerson and Thoreau were two entirely different men. Emerson could be accused of pandering - especially to his devout followers - whereas Thoreau was an...
zmntns@...
Jan 30, 2001 1:04 am
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Pandering? That may be a bit strong. ... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at...
Gubster Bug
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Jan 30, 2001 7:34 pm
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I recently received the following query: I am looking for an essay I read in 1971 in a high school English book. It was titled something like "Thoreau meets...
Cramer, Jeff
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Jul 12, 2001 5:10 pm
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For those who might be interested, forthcoming book: Thoreau on Freedom: Attending to Man Link: http://www.fulcrum-books.com/html/thoreau_on_freedom.html ...
The Thoreau Update The e-newsletter from the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute Library E-Newsletter Winter 2004/2005 Volume 1, Number 1 Curator of...
