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Building a 'Natural' Life; Failure in America; Recording's Influence on Music

Returning on the Concord River from a week's boating trip with his brother John, his impending re-entry into society much on his mind, Henry David Thoreau lamented the artificial and disjointed life that he must again face. ... As we find the passage in the last chapter of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Thoreau's lament intimates...

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