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Literary Imagination Advance Access published online on December 19, 2007
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The Indweller's Aversion: Thoreau's Sacrificial Wonder

Dan Beachy-Quick*

*Dan Beachy-Quick, 526 E. Pitkin St., Ft. Collins, CO 80524, USA.

E-mail: Dan.Beachy-Quick@colostate.edu

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

"Singers call men back to a time when there was no need of singers"
        —Seth Benerdate, "The First Crisis in First Philosophy"


   The Descent from Olympus
 
In the morning the Muses sing the morning. The morning is not a melody separate from the music; the singing is the morning itself—not in time, not in passing—in a song that repeats daily, though a day not reduced to hours, a day not composed of time. The morning is that portion of the day larger than the day itself. The Muses sing the morning on their mountain, and as they sing, they descend. The song changes as the Muses descend. At mountain top the song is Olympian; on the plain the song is Titanic; and beneath the ground, the song is, as Seth Benerdate, in his reading of Hesiod, says, of the "Cosmic-gods." The song the Muses sing beneath the ground is Chaos's song, is Night's song. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Founding
 

   The Sacrifice of Aversion
 

   Heroic Work
 

   Wonder
 

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