the Thoreau Log.
24 May 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The smooth speedwell is in its prime now, whitening the sides of the back road, above the Swamp Bridge and front of Hubbard’s . . .

  P. M.—Talked, or tried to talk with R.W.E. Lost my time—nay, almost my identity. He, assuming a false opposition where there was no difference of opinion, talked to the wind—told me what I knew—and I lost my time trying to imagine myself somebody else to oppose him . . .

(Journal, 5:188)

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