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...carries the redefinition a step further he examines Walden as scripture, a holy book with a philosophical doctrine and a prophetic meaning with hymns and parables, epics and parables, epics and a comprehensible symbolic unity. With a swipe he disposes of such essentially irrelevant questions as the importance of Thoreau's mysterious journals or the divergences of Thoreau's thought from his Concord neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson's. He takes interest soles in whether Walden holds up to close philosophical scrutiny in what it has to tell us about how we are to live...
...most original insight in Cavell's essay is his identification of the central philosophical question in Walden the problem of free will and determinism. Men determine themselves through the mythologies they create whether the mystery of predestination or demigod at technology mystery of predestination or the damaged of technology. Thoreau says, He proceeds from there to create a mythic life this own at Walden Ponds which has written call to his neighbors, and to us, to awaken and shed the necessities we have brought upon ourselves Thoreau clearly realizes that the casting off and rebuilding of one's own life...
BOSTON REPERTORY THEATRE. Thurs., Fri., The Little Prince: Wed., Sat., The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; Sat. mat. and Sun., The Thirteen Clocks, Mat. at 2, evenings...
Through it all he faces death unrepentant. "I don't feel guilty for a goddam thing I've done on earth," he says. "I believe it was Thoreau who said, 'What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?' And if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior." It seems a fitting epitaph for Washington's last angry...
BOSTON REPERTORY THEATRE. Thurs. and Fri.. The Little Prince. Wed. and Sat., The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail Sat. mat. and Sun. The Thirteen Clocks. Eves...