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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Walden and "Civil Disobedience"

"Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere." p.68

(Q) What?.. No really, what? Thoreau, up to this point in his book, has used many greek mythology allusions, but those were clear. This one is very different from the rest; it's more of a metaphor than an allusion. I know what he means when he says "Olympus", but what else is he trying to say?

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