The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: Thoreau's Journal: 21-Jun-1853

6.21.2006

Thoreau's Journal: 21-Jun-1853

The warmest day yet. For the least two days I have worn nothing about my neck. This change or putting off of clothes is, methinks, as good an evidence of the increasing warmth of the weather as meteorological instruments. I thought it was hot weather perchance, when, a month ago, I slept with a window wide open and laid aside a comfortable, but by and by I found that I had got two windows open, and to-night two windows and the door are far from enough.

2 comments:

Casey said...: I love how I feel reading these--isn't it like Thoreau's talking to me, about "our" life? I couldn't possibly get it cool enough in my little apartment last night... the hottest night of the year so far.; Jun 22, 2006, 4:05:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I wonder what Henry would have thought of an air conditioner, or even an electric fan?; Jun 3, 2008, 8:32:00 PM

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one of the native forces

“Thoreau was a surprising fellow—he is not easily grasped—is elusive: yet he is one of the native forces—stands for a fact, a movement, an upheaval: Thoreau belongs to America, to the transcendental, to the protesters: then he is an outdoor man: all outdoor men everything else being equal appeal to me. Thoreau was not so precious, tender, a personality as Emerson: but he was a force—he looms up bigger and bigger: his dying does not seem to have hurt him a bit: every year has added to his fame.”

~Walt Whitman as recorded by Horace Traubel

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The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906).

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