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Understanding 9/11tv Thoreaus Walden Pond CSPAN July 16, 2017 3:07pm-3:17pm EDT
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with his very continued stay. people can really be transported back in time. the building, landscape, the artifacts. so many people come to come toward to have that study. >> our comcast cable partners worked with c-span cities tour. when you return to concorde, massachusetts. in town was incorporated 1965. area ine only inland the middle of the country.
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>> it is interesting that very often readers when they first come to the pond are maybe a little disappointed because if expectedwalden you are to be amazed at the landscape. that he could be every day steger by the landscape like
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this takes a little getting used to. it was just an little pond. now it is a icon of american literary history. henry david throw first came out here when he was a boy. .e remember that excursion he came here with his family, he hisally gathered for father's paper manufacturing factory. he came here to live. it was on july 4 1845 when he came to live. then it was for two years after that. emersonnd ralph waldo have bought the property we are standing on now.
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as a wood lot basically. is not good except for growing trees. could strut if he -- start of a life here. his principal purpose was to for a certain writer himself. it was something he had been thinking about or several years. in the specific project that he had in mind was the book. brother whoo his died in 1841. the book is about a trip that he took, they were both very young.
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that's the book that he wrote. while he was here it can be imagined that he was all alone. if you read the book you would think he his halfway up a mountain. at the end of the world somewhere, he is not, he is connected to discount. he had lots of visitors fall he was. it's not that he was isolated. he had plenty of solitude that he wanted. as he tells built us in the first chapter was 10 feet by 15 feet. that is fairly substantial.
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mosts not the size of workshops in that time. you can get a lot done in 10 feet. it was very efficient for him. immediately he soon began growing teens. part on to get by in them. for the rest of his time it was about supplying supplies. he came with ideas about what while this is. not the builder, what while is this.
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his goal was to remove himself from culture. butounds kind of drastic you can catch artists at it now and again. theref the reason he went was one reason emerson suggested. he thought it was important for americans to put that behind them. is to come do that out and get yourself fired. take a look, for the most part. not long after he came the idea of the book started to occur.
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c gave on the subject right in the beginning of writing the book. there was curiosity. he wanted to know if he was home. why are you not afraid? he started answering those questions. he would have these field lectures. it kind of grew from there. it was not just the narrative. her publisher had to make her get rid of that subtitle. it was not just a narrative. was obviously more complicated than that. >> walden the book was a much
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larger project. it was not published until 1854. it went through several drafts. in the interim he adopted a new mentality around fiction. a new way of observing the world. that is reflected in the final draft of walden. exercise toittle pick a part that was -- he was of course successful then. deal was with his publisher for one week. that is when he came to walden to write. he ended up being the responsible for the publication in a man stuck.
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on additional license. out of gutted faster in just one week. >> one of the things that i am with hiso point out experiments. he talks about those. wanted hisink he dreams to have this on remarkable fact of man and nature the way so works. when you look at what they do together and what they are like.
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