...the bell rings, why should we run ? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us s=ttle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through...opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearnnce, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston...

...what do we see but the sky and the sun ?" Thus in various ways he endeavored to "work and wedge [his] feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion,...appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe." And among the genuine things his search revealed to him the supremely beneficent one was Nature. His...

...confident that " there is a solid bottom everywhere " if we only have the courage to sink to it. " Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet...prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, ... to a hard bottom and rock in place — which we can call reality." When Thoreau says he is seeking...

...every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or breakfast gently and without perturbation ; let company come...opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearances, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston...

...kind of music they are like. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Let us settle ourselves, and work and (1804-1864) wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, 10 A VIEW OF CONCORD and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe,...

...should we run ? We will consider what kind of music they are like. Let us settle ourselves, and_wprk and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and '' -covers the globe, through Paris and London, througTTNew York "and Boston and Concord, through Church...

...the surface of things. We think that that is which appears to be." (p. 79) He appeals to humanity to "settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward...and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe . . . till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we call reality, and say, This is, and...

...nature of his quest as a kind of inverted spiritual odyssey which attempts to negotiate a transcendence downward "through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, . . . till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is,...

...this version to the discussion eventually forming chapter two, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For": Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet...tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion that covers the globe—through London and Paris, through New York and Boston and Concord, through...

...the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."3s For Thoreau, the only remedy is to "work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush" of opinion-prejudice-tradition-delusion-appearance and right ourselves on solid ground (TLA, 400). Hemingway's...