the Thoreau Log.
February 1847.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers has expanded to twice its original size by this date (Revising Mythologies, 255).

Concord, Mass. A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  The aged Cephales in the Republic says that “as the pleasures respecting the body languish, the desire and pleasure of conversation increase.” So vivid was my sense of escape from the senses while conversing with Henry today that the men, times, and occupations of coming years gave me a weary wish to be released from this scene and to pass into a state of noble companions and immortal labours.
(The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 190-191)

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