Title A Black Forest Walden Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (296 p.) Series SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Ser SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Ser Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Silent snowfall -- 2. The colors of snow -- or, where beauty is -- 3. In the still of the night -- 4. The snowplow -- 5. Ice wings -- 6. The Storm Beech -- 7. The Moon and Venus -- 8. The cabin -- or, plucking the raisins -- 9. The past has not passed -- 10. Neighbors -- 11. But where's the pond? -- 12. River of fog -- 13. My "office" -- 14. Conversations with Marlon Brando? -- 15. Ice wings, Part Two -- 16. Douglas the Fir -- 17. Aurora -- 18. Freaks of nature -- or, lighting fires and mourning the woods -- 19. H.D. in bed -- 20. Maudlin and bathetic 21. Add your dreams, and not just the sexy ones! -- 22. Tell Marlonbrando your dreams, honey, and everything will be all right -- 23. Neighbors, Part Two: Herr S.W. -- 24. The darkness of the woods -- 25. Monarchs in December -- 26. The limits of description -- 27. The limits of knowledge -- 28. Black and white -- 29. Fool's spring -- 30. A reflection on consumer society -- or, a Romantic has his uses -- 31. The deserving poor -- 32. A succession of beautiful days -- 33. Neighbors, Part Three: Wolfgang -- 34. La pensée du jour -- 35. The smartphone in high mountains 36. The new adventures of Pinocchio -- 37. News of the world -- 38. On the difference between European and American "values" -- 39. Tell Marlonbrando your dreams, honey, and everything will be all right, Part Two -- 40. On the degeneration of poetry to chemistry -- 41. Platonism and Puritanism keep us on our spiritual toes -- 42. Neighbors, Part Four: Frau S.M. -- 43. Let's (not!) do lunch -- 44. The perfect universe -- 45. Autarchy -- or, fatties beware! -- 46. Woodchuck Heaven -- 47. Mudslide Man -- 48. Knowing beans 49. Tell Marlonbrando your dreams, honey, and everything will be all right, Part Three -- 50. Moving mountains -- 51. Obscene spring -- 52. On jealousy and brutalization -- 53. The bowlegged larch -- 54. Speculative gardening -- 55. Former inhabitants -- 56. The two corners of Melville's smile -- 57. Thaw and Thor -- 58. Former inhabitants, Part Two -- 59. Taking the arm of an elm tree -- 60. Thoreau's serviceable body -- 61. On loneliness -- or, snap out of it! -- 62. The work of mourning -- 63. A cautionary note -- 64. Hurry up, please, it's time -- 65. Return to sender 66. Former inhabitants, Part Three -- 67. A snippet on schnapps -- 68. Tell Marlonbrando your dreams, honey, and everything will be all right, Part Four -- 69. Doubling up -- 70. My little chickadee! -- 71. Home Entertainment Center -- 72. Neighbors, Part Five: Rüdiger -- 73. The forlorn pair of shoes -- 74. The forlorn BMW -- 75. Kids -- 76. Henry's mom and dad -- 77. More work of mourning -- 78. Tell Marlonbrando your dreams, honey, and everything will be all right, Part Five -- 79. Old people -- 80. About that blackbird -- 81. Former inhabitants, Part Four: The lover suspended in the rafters Summary Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond Notes Description based upon print version of record 82. On doing good Subject Krell, David Farrell -- Homes and haunts -- Germany -- Black Forest Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Influence Marlonbrando (Cat) SUBJECT Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 fast Walden (Thoreau, Henry David) fast Subject Solitude -- Germany -- Black Forest Feral cats -- Germany -- Black Forest Human-animal relationships -- Germany -- Black Forest Feral cats Homes Human-animal relationships Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature Solitude SUBJECT Walden Pond (Middlesex County, Mass.) -- In literature Black Forest (Germany) -- Biography Subject Germany -- Black Forest Massachusetts -- Walden Pond (Middlesex County) Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book ISBN 1438488505 9781438488509

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