”I ordered this, this clean wood box
Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift.
I would say it was the coffin of a midget
Or a square baby” p.212
(R) I'm intrigued by her dark sense of humor. She seems like she would've been the type of person to drop these left and right like they're nothing. I feel like her humor reflects her pain, or whatever it was that she was going through at this period in her life.
”You come in late, wiping your lips.” p.201
(not sure). I really like this line.it could mean so many things. Was that person drinking? Were they out with someone else? I like how such a simple sentence can make you think this much.
”I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising sun, which is hardly more regular.” p.93
(E) He's removed himself from society just enough to the point where the sun rises more frequently than cars pass by. He seems to be in awe at his own observation and seems to find it very pleasing as well.
”..a fish hawk dimples the glassy surface if the pond and brings up a fish..” p.91
(R) I really like how he worded this. He took what could've been a simple sentence, took away some simplicity, but made up for it in imagery. This is what I like about writing.
”Much is published, but little printed. The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.” p.88-89
(R) A lot of what is actually said or done is actually just the same thing recycled over and over again. Thoreau thinks we should focus more on importance and originality, not on the same things over and over again.
” Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?” p.74
(E) He doesn't want us, I believe, to use up our time with meaningless tasks, and without the use of careful thinking and precision. If we're to do something we should do it right, and with purpose. And we should not waste time in doing unnecessary things.
"The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.” p.71
(R) People tend to be extremely different in the morning than at night. Maybe it's because we've not yet remembered that which worries us, maybe we're too tired to care at the time. Whatever it is, I feel like it really mellows you out to wake up on your own in the morning. It's a really great feeling.
"..I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them." p.68
(R) I just think that iy's funny how he phrased it, but it is so true. The most common way we can ever have some type of bird companion is by imprisoning it in our houses. But instead of imprisoning the birds in order to be their neighbors, he "imprisoned" himself in a sense.
