September 2010
5 posts
from Walden
“Not long since I was present at the auction of a deacon’s effects, for his life had not been ineffectual: —
‘The evil that mean do lives after them.’
As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father’s day. Among the rest was a dried tapeworm. And now, after lying half a century in his garret and other dust holes, these...
from Bernhard's Amras
Between Walter and myself only a semiconscious state continued to prevail, in that semiconscious state we existed side by side as though in and as though against the misapplied reason of our acquiescence: henceforth we only obeyed … Our mutual relationship was not without enmity … indeed our natural innate mutual aversion was in truth the source of our affection, of our sibling...
