the Thoreau Log.
11 September 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Cool weather. Sit with windows shut, and many by fires . . .

  P.M.—To Dugan’s . . .

  The present appearance of the solidago in Hosmer’s ditch which may be S. stricta is a stout erect red stem with entire, lanceolate, thick, fleshy, smooth sessile leaves above, gradually increasing in length downward till ten inches long and becoming toothed . . .

  Signs of frost last night in M. Miles’s cleared swamp . . .

(Journal, 5:422-423)

Thoreau writes in his journal on 12 September:

  It occurred to me when I awoke this morning, feeling regret for intemperance of the day before in eating fruit, which had dulled my sensibilities, that man was to be treated as a musical instrument . . .
(Journal, 5:424)

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