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Project: Reading Thoreau’s Journal (2)
Aug. 28—(an excerpt) Evening.—A new moon visible in the east. I omit the unusual—the hurricanes and earthquakes—and describe the common. This has the greatest charm and is the true theme of poetry. You may have the extraordinary for your province, if you will let me have the ordinary. Give me the obscure life,… Read More Project: Reading Thoreau’s Journal (2)