...casting into "leads." hardened like stone and could stand intense heat. I do not wish to be any more busv with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands...head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures used their snout and fore-paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think...

...would be happy to hear from anyone they were unable to INTRODUCTION "The intellect is a cleaver: il discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things....for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and forepaws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest...

...Thoreau's context is the paragraph in which he has declared his head to be hands and feet and adds: "My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, . . . and with it I would mine," another identification of his writing with the details of his building...

...discerns and rifts its way into the center of things. I do not wish to be busy with my hands any more than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel...for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and forepaws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills . . . and here I will begin...

...face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a scimitar, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart...for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and forepaws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest...

...administration of it accurately measure the rise and despatch messages tn the cities" (Diodorua r.36.10). the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it...for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore-paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest...

...surrounding and sustaining it. Thoreau expresses this in yet another paean to the life of thought: The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts...for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore-paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest...

...beneath the surface of mere appearances. As he declares at the beginning of his life in the wilderness, "my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures...with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills."30 Demby's text also represents a sophisticated literary 'mining' operation. What is more, The...

...As he declares at the heginning of his life in the wilderness. "my head is an organ for hurrowing. as some creatures use their snout and fore paws. and with it l would mine and hurrow my way through these hills." Demhy's text also represents a sophisticated literary...

...my experience. I can read only my own story, never a syllable of another's. JOURNAL 1843 OCTOBER 9 Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink...for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore-paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest...