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longer be denied that Walden is a masterpiece....One can
read Walden in the midst of the rush hour at Grand Central

Station. Even there It communicates inward detachment, a
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden. N.Y.: The New American Library, 1960, pp. 250-3

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