Walden

by Thoreau, Henry David (2008)

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I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and every where, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to be to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways (...) What I have heard of Bramins sitting exposed to four fires and looking in the face of the sun; or hanging suspended… or dwelling, chained for life, at the foot of a tree; … even these forms of conscious penance are hardly more incredible and astonishing than the scenes which I daily witness. (p.6)

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