“The moments of greatest philosophical and poetic intensity
in Walden are these experiences of
perceptual reorientation that reveal the inadequacy of conventional
self-understanding.”
-David M. Robinson, Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism
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Interpretive lingo: a good reminder of why I didn't go to grad school.
(Some people can speak in such terms all day and retain their sanity . . . alas, not me!)
