MSW Book Recoms 52 ; '...she sings so hard her dress changes color.'

,Or, '...daughters and the sons of time; twin exponents of a divine thought.' ; 
Or, (of course) '...capable of writing like an angel.' 

; “Nature … Every where she preaches not abstract but practical truth... The moss grows over her triangles. Unlike the man of science she teaches that skeletons are only good to wear the flesh, and make fast the sinews to – that better is the man than his bones.” ; “...Where the skeleton of the traveller reposes in the grass there may it profitably be studied. What right has mortal man to parade any skeleton on its legs when once the gods have unloosed its sinews – what right to imitate heaven with his wires – or to stuff a body with sawdust – which nature has decreed shall return to dust again? “ ; “... What a mean and wretched creature is man by and by some Dr Morton may be filling your cranium with white mustard seed to learn its internal capacity. 
 

Of all ways invented to come at a knowledge of a living man – this seems to me the worst – as it is the most belated. You would learn more by once paring the toe nails of the living subject. There is nothing out of which the spirit has more completely departed – and in which it has left fewer significant traces.“ ; 
“... I look over the report of the doings of a scientific association and am surprised that there is so little life to be reported; I am put off with a parcel od dry technical terms. Anything living is easily and naturally expressed in popular language. …They communicate no fact which rises to the temperature of blood-heat. It does not at all amount to one rhyme.”

; (Thoreau) – from Journal ; 15 Dec 1840 ; 29. Sept 1843 ; 25 June 1852, and 6 May 1854.

; “It's beautiful the way water drops hang so thick and dripping on the garden plains after a night of rain in the ninth month, when the morning sun shines fresh and dazzling on them. Where the rain clings in the spider webs that hang in the open weave of a screening fence or draped on the eaves, it forms the most moving and beautiful strings of white pearly drops.

... And I also find it fascinating that things like this can utterly fail to delight others.”; 

“Winter is best when it's fearfully cold, while summer is most summerlike when it's impossibly hot.”

; (Sei Shônagon) ,...who lived ca 966-1017.

- from The Pillow Book (;p. 129-130 ; 199. (2006 ed./transl. McKinney, Penguin classics.)

Recoms:

One flew over the Cuccoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

(1962)

; 310 p. (on repr., 2000s)

And

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

(f.p. 1963 ; 257 p.) ; Faber et Faber

And

A Scanner Darkly

by Philip K. Dick

(p. 1977)

With accomp. (/co-read):

Big Pharma. How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness.

by Jacky Law

(2006 ; 266 p.) ; Constable and Robinson.

; [ Recommendations VI / 2016 ; I / 2017]

...Of a second thought I might've just as well named this sequel to '...(you) can't unbury the dead.' (and bury the suffering...) - Of purely symbolical spoken, of course. ; Yet, supposin' there been quite enough of some 'dark an gloomy' chapters on these views, it would've made – perhaps – too sarcastic of an impression. ; As I don't really wish to much cast my lot of to providing any too specific, perhaps one-sided to my knowledge from, views on the described processes'an' progresses - or what could be combined of the followed few 'glances' - we leave it readers task from deciding by themselves what they'd make of these aspects presented. As usual, this now a lot, a some sort haystack; Little messy and perhaps bit 'stingy', but hope did gather the essentials on/to this.

; So (I think or so...) the better part from American fiction always was/has been popular fiction. To fully comprehend why it so, one might, possibily, examine the studies of the modern cultural pasts, an' the history of modern 'youth', specifically it's global histories. ...But anything like, not of our purposes here. Neither have I much of any interest to the some long-term/lately established adorations from a popular 'rubbish', the camp, cheap flicks, the mags and toilet-papers, the 'women's readings'...While not only popular, quite as much often, used to be that (what indeed notable). ; Notwithstanding, fx, often on direct contrast for that said, comics, the easy readings, I've lately again began almost admire... Easy or not, what remains after closer reading, tends tell me that popular is rarely very good, but it's neither worth nothing (...Such as Splendid! Extraordinary!, etc...)

; The american fiction particularly considered, or only looking back those former posts of ours I notice we've had presented for earlier examples (at least) Oates, Weiss-Hickman, Carr, Lovecraft, London, Wright, (Baldwin), ...plus maybe elsemuch smght. All in the very limits of (something like) the popular fiction. Had there been selects of something older that 'combination' might show slight different populars emphasized, but not very greatly, 'suppose. ; From some other comparables of popular, first comes for mind - And what I could've chosen for these, fx,...Kerouac, Asimov, Easton Ellis, Anne Rice (is she american...it's quite telling to these views, actually...), Amy Tan... - But then, fx not the Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Fitzgerald, Capote, Mailer, Updike, Stephen King (features on every list, anycase...), McLean (Yet again, was some american?, even. Well maybe...), Bhaktivedanta (at least popularly very sold, everywhere in the streets at my early youth....:) And, btw, doesn't mean I'd think to less readable those, not any understatement, and might even learn smght, time to time, of those.

But, what a vast variety of writers that makes; - Sometimes finding ourselves thinkin' perhaps the past ages literatures, or especial what popular and what “serious” would appear more easily 'grasped' and featured than any from recent century, or so. Of course, it's only very seeming and very superficial way to look any past (and usual interpretations, some by ours and some by others, of the past ages often quite as selective, categorized, and most likely arranged acc. the influential and of what inherited via some 'tradition') ; Despite the quality, my any selections also mostly have'd the cultural reasons and probably easiness of the popular fiction affecting. ...Easy for anyone who makes that so...

...But before we now leave the american fiction for good (,and esp. cons the more recent modern), for to 'walk on' at its 'own pace', 'suppose a few other 'glimpses' or remarks. (Btw, that all these selects are from the 'american popular' wasn't any conscious priority or reason for these, it just happened, to tell you the truth...)

; As much noticeable of the (american) popularity (fiction) seems then also, maybe, that many american writer might've been an 'emigrees', both during some more distant, 'old times' (but not too far, though), and by the newer times – Most of course from Europes; By the time when Hitler and Stalin from early 1900s were threatening the judes, the English/European inherited religious an' social normative the homosexuals... (...Plus, maybe then there were lesser known similar incidents and 'purges' on the said times,  an' similar reflective of the distorted 'moralities', by many places on the world.) ...And quite as much true there also always been writers, the 'cultural elites' whom might've become neglected at their home countries, some reasons or other, and whom crossed the seas (Atlantic, to these examples) but recolated rather for other places. Like, for example D.H.Lawrence relocating to Mexico (ca, 1930s), Stevenson for the Pacific (1800s). ; From (lot) more recent any concept/nationality of a 'writer', of any place, and likewise the 'amerian fiction', must've become even less specifically 'country localised' – The world being lot more global these days. (...And only part of it probably fits for what used to be 'literature', anymore, or even fits between some 150-300 pages, the usual standard-lenght for novel, market price few dollars, cheap sales... And quite notable too, that any good library shop become lot more rarity to these days, probably as the parallel consequences... But maybe the cultural change just has stabilized market, incl. the internet-markets, on it's present form, and purchases made 'physically', more or less following the trends from consumer behaviour – 'cause the profitable sales-time on most books said enshortened. Specialization of the regular/'street'-market, yet less specialization cons. books (/shops), then probable consequences of that. ...But I like the paper-made books, anyway. That shift for the 'tech'-viewing maccinas, and books published on electronic format then alongside to the changes on the reading culture.)
 

; ...'Guess we can't be more specific on our views to the popular to this - Or from what at any time becomes popular - Indeed it's very fluctuating a term. Also at least notable the cultural apprehensions by any period tend affect too: Nella Larsen, possibly, might've made it popular like Jamaica Kincaid the past decades/these 'modern' days, yet not on that 1920s. On the other hand, Melville wouldn't been popularized on 1980s, or any decade after. That feels actually rather poor comparison, but glanced from those references on Melville's 'crusifixation' cons. the past whales slaughter, sometime, just said in lack from any better comparison to offer...

; But, wasn't meaning from relate these particular novels selected to any american fiction more general level (or actually, at all.) ; So let's leave this subject in good a time...

'Cause the selections (the recoms) to this, on this post, aren't strickly due their at the time popularity/or of non-popularity. These (few) mainly, because of a unifying theme, them concerned on the around mental health and the (past) mental institutions/the histories of treatment from patients to the mental illnesses. (That said, anything not very specifically delimited on the said aspects either, as I don't wish to. After all these are novels as the main 'guideline'. Fiction tells of realities, but via it's own means.) ; No question from the mental healths or -illness elseways have to do/can be viewed relating for such things as social and cultural (-'reasons') as much as them would w. the emotional and individual (-'reasons'). So, one might bear in mind that any of these following novels, as a fiction isn't merely a depiction about any institutions or singular 'cases' – as such, novels – all of these, I think, have more to say cons. the American/European mental histories (And also quite obviously therefore also relate on global histories from the mental hospitals.) 

; From the whole of it, I guess, it possible acquire certain view-points, limited indeed, but some, via that 'phrase' I formulated for the begins on this (...some saying that you ever can't actually unbury the dead.) Makes senses...'cause more or often common cultivated manner people typically build from the pasts is merely something type from the 'statues and columns', the remainders from any inherintance are taken along in ways that merely seem meant from to patronize the dead and foregone. Some from those. And something what's been 'buried', to time, becomes then (afterwards, in time) to be seen for the sudden sensational and 'strikingly challengin' discoveries to the later estimate. A bit simplified, yet that how we make the past, oftenmost.

...Main headline (to this post) is of text/article by Brenda Frazer at 90s book/compile of writings, poems, etc. by the 'beat women', or beat-generation female writers. (named about; A Different Beat. Female writer's of the Beat Generation. Ed. Peabody, 1997.) ...Nothing particular to remark on that either. My (any, limited) acquaintance, like said, on history by the beat-movement or decades cultures rather superificial. I only suppose there yet still is quite much (or less apparent) on the postward memoir only from 'distant' recalled - I think the book itself seems lot more readable an' interesting compile than most lots else wide variety of that 'beat-hobbyism'...Since I remember, for example, that at that late 90s, the computers and -discs becoming for 'novelties' there were also compilations of the beat-writings to those and lot other likesome 'reissued' stuffs....Say for some examples fx Kerouac-calenders, Ginsberg travel-diary w. selected Howl-anecdotes to every day, Burroughs reprints of the 1950s forbidden classics, ...and else what much was then presented 'retroism'. ; (Also,) perhaps my most impressions of the 50s, etc. are lot via the movies, of some that not even worth watching...merely. Of course the decade wouldn't everafter been complete 'out-of-fashion', propably. Yet, seems to me as well that those beat-nostalgicks/or period's other phenomena in 'memoir' often more reliable than what selected of followed 60s social 'confrontations' or other things characteristical to. (Meaning from what characteristical and 'asided', such books like, fx, Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, or much else of the incidents by the late 1960s. The Black Panthers fx, and else what perhaps by now most only maybe rather little aware from.) Yet they also usually say there wouldn't been any 1960s without the 1950s. But leaving that for the readers deciding or to judge from...these too mostly only fewsome selective views.

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; Likewise, not from any particulars of this, only for the sidemention, that Jacky Law-book shortly mentioned. (...I considered from had cited, of various parts...but then supposed that'd needed more place than of what these few references permit us, anycase.) The sole reason from it presented, too that there not elsemuch anything which would've provided some views to recent 'medico-social complex' - From a social and industrial culture from medicines/drugs-manufacture and the illness generally (social or individual viewed, and not means just from mental illnesses part). Book seems by now from relative old, yet feels also well informative from those now few past (recent) decades, and the medical and 'pharmaneutic'-histories considered. (At least, since I've not read any more recent/more comprehensive views about, has to satisfy as the suggestion from some glancing, alongside.) ; From the same reason, I only say that (from postafter readin that) made a casual 'look' on published books soon after or near the timin' from similar aspects (/subject). And, (slight) telling, but not perhaps too surprisingly, names of those seemed contained the various sort of following kinds (or smght like): 'Pharmageddon', 'Big Bad Pharma', 'Medico-capitalism', 'How pharma has distorted...', etc. ; Actually, lot of these things also seems trace its roots to that same unliberal 1990s, which we've so often earlier here referred to. (Fx, to the bad-reputed origins/backgrounds on the patent-laws/systems conserning global medicines market and sales, ...etc.) 
 

; Seems there were, during the years it discusses, several main contradictions tied on that 'gordion knot' around that 'Big pharma' - the large medicine manufacturing industries - and that obviously unsolvable (ethical) question of how the industry 'liaisoned' on principles from money-making, could serve 'customers' (ie patients, anyone in need of medicines) w. their best possible healths and medical services, provided. ...But I'm not saying elsemuch, guess' there must've been yet some advance on the manner these markets operate, by this day.

Btw, Rousseau, on some chapter from the 'Solitary walks...' (about 1778), writes, smght like ; 'Personally I can't think of any disease that a few dozen herbs and treatments wouldn't cure, but never could I comprehend why anyone would study or gather medicinal plants with the main aim from to take profit of their sales.' ; While I basically agree on that (, from cons. that by the time the herbs and 'traditional healery' featured probably more reliable treatments than the so called 'official' medicine w. it's varying principes and practitioners) ...Wouldn't say that I'd have any definite opposites on many advances brought by the modern medicinery – About the same period, or near to (...that of Rousseau's, or JCQR, like we've then on that chapter 40 bit enshortened that...), the inoculations were first taken on uses, against smallpox (most renownly, plus maybe later on measles, and what the other ills ever since prevented/cured with on time between.) And one can only think of the many millions peoples whom might've been saved by the invention of vaccination – meaning those for whom by it then, by the time and ever afterwards the aid was been afforded.

; ...All that said, not wishes from offer any definite advices on not for anyone's best knowledges. I only know that there's not any medicinal guarantees on any 'miracles' to be invented via inventions that might've have to do with the human body, or even more so - happiness. But of course anyone hopes that the medicinal inventions are for the best of peoples – and not for the 'cultures of illness'. ; ...Sometimes there's a view from human health control having gone 'too far' and as such one reason for the planet's overpopulation, etc., - but all the known inequality up until the recent pasts, I feel that not for arguments worth. ; As a general advice/common sense opinion, wouldn't buy any vitaminizer's, not any 'health boosters', and for most part tend avoid anything that 'affects' via improving the hormonal system, shows itself to a 'super-medicine', or adverts from some resembling qualities and beneficies provided. (But, I don't say that there wouldn't be uses on modern mecinery, in cases from infections, pains, ...ao. I only say I don't feel it a very trust-worth a market. Everybody actually, at least unconsciously probably might behold bit similar tensions these days. Health is a serious matter.) Wouldn't pay from any genetic 'mapping' by the DNA of to 'secure' some best possible medicinal treats on myself. 'Cause I think life's a matter of faith, more than of the genes. Of healths, can't say from too particular, or ain't too assured from anything. (Miracles do take places, on medical research there could still be significant discoveries made, and, diseases exist.) ; And btw, instead of the apples I eat peppers...haven't cured anything on me yet, but they're tasty.

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; Anycase, even if there 'd be lot more to say on these histories of the mental healths (, or from the followin' few novels, glanced to this merely) I suppose my defective and now aged familirity to most this, permits me only say this: For the readings (above and followin') to these aspects (anyone) might also find useful some consideration about view-points cons. on “docto-power” and the “hypo-craze” - In explained, modern science (of medicines, healths, and illnesses) of it's (these) histories, perfectly finds itself in distortment from the Hippocrate's (ca 460-270 B.C.) ancient formulated rules of the medic ethic(s). (What the above few referenced paragraphs tried represent, no matter how limitedly.) ; Cons. what the level one might find to these old histories the natural scientific normative or 'beliefs' most to blame, or think from the main reasons social held 'standards' about the 'proper humanity' maybe is disputable. (From these readings) feels it maybe was more due the latter mentioned reason...'suppose. But it's only useful to know from.

The novels:

Kesey's '...Cuckoo's Nest' probably the most renown amongst. Considering it's topics...the setting on mental asylum is probably quite as telling as anything else and makes that some 'classic' also from a description of the paranoid realities by that 1950s. (However, the movie made sometime later at the 1960s appears probably also more renown. For it's merit one can say, fx, the conventional but true statement that the book is successfully transferred 'far better on film than at most cases.' It is rather quite good indeed, at the level the anonyme, bureaucratic power is shown exist inside/behind the 'invisible' walls.) Meaning fx those 'white, clean' walls of the hospital, but not solely;  The cleaner even hypocrasy on the treatment of the patients, ...plus then there would be lot more to say of that gloomy, uncompromising, inhuman milieu and systems that – more or less – do reflect conditions on the very regular, institutionalised Asylums, by the time.

..Can't say anything much else on it, though. Despite the fact that it's a novel (fiction), the reader has every reason to be reminded that what featured contains lot of direct relevance to the then existed social norms from those postwar decades. (And, of course, not of to say that anything like wouldn't had continued even after.) 
 

; Further detail of to mention that Kesey himself soon/near time became sort of early 'prophet' (or just 'figure') in the early emergence of an hippie-counter culture, along w. the Huxley, by that early from 1960s.

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Plath's sole novel (The Bell Jar), probably is bit less renown. While not too forgotten at least, but - mainly – her been more recognized as poet during her life. Won't say too much on that either – partly of the reason that while the books general content is all but hopeless, she did end her life soon after its publication. (Which automatically makes the book's reading rather bleak by impression, or any conception provided of it.) Partly also from due that I've not any particular knowledge on her life-details, or otherways much else read from. But the books principally rather well written, some 'pocket-novelty' and amongst the 1950s several little similar gems on the 'distorted reality' (of the then existed american/western societies.) ...To some comparisons for the preceding said, it also features obvious links to its times, ao, in what referred via described denials of the human social-emotional 'scope' (of mental patients), plus fx also it makes views on women's treatment as 'objects' at then contemporary culture.

; Plath's book from most value, or whether that then only some of its qualities, on her uncompromising way of not to 'fancy' anything, or only little at it. (There's fx mentioned of the treatment of patients w. by electrocution which was still accepted and 'scientifically' argumented way of the treatment by that period. On 'domestic' mental institutions as much as elsewhere many places.) Presently is even difficult imagine what kind manner of thought, would've established any scientific 'proof' from to justify such practices, but in the light of those times science 'beliefs' such treatment was largely held acceptable. ...That 'infallible' medical sciences. (Interprets as the modern adaptation of an ages-old punishment and observance-system.) 
 

; ...Of some comparable texts (not from the topics but from their content and the described social 'realities'/scope.). ; What first come for mind, maybe at least would be Capote's some novels and maybe some early 'prerunners' to that beat-movement, fx...Or, so I suppose. But Plath's novel is better 'cause she doesn't maintain that much sarcaism (Common on many decades renown male writers, maybe was elsemuch prevailing too...). Also that doesn't have that signum of any too 'professional' written text as prose. ; Also some most contemporary resemblance, of the little I've read, of course brings on mind the Bonjour Tristesse (1950s) by Francoise Sagan (1935-2004), an 'iconic' piece of a novel and also youthful 'autobiography', widely sold in the 1950s. To some comparison it not yet that convincin'. (...Part of my 'rejection' of Sagan, btw, from reason (I think) she certainly seem been rather gifted writer but declined from to serve that 'gift' as the novelist, principally. Well, anycase, I've at least noted her 'merits' to this too then...) ; Probably there's also several likewise examples, while less renown as novels – these just what the other books it somehow brought on my mind.

; But these few paragraphs only too little say anything cons. the social value of Plath's novel. It's certainly more authentic piece, emotionally, than most fiction one might come by. Like said she maybe wasn't any prose writer foremost, but the text, (her language meaning) often is very vivid, poetic of expressions and words. And while it said from largely base on descriptions from her early youth at the 1940, probably would be only somewhat misleading to interpret the book solely for an autobiographic novel.

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; ...Then on Dick's Scanner Darkly, the last book in this selection. There's not any too direct connection for anything medical, novel not situates (mostly) to any 'hospitalized' environments, or institutions. Not directly deals with aspects such as mental health, or how patients treated on hospitals. It's mostly, superficially, in some form a 'scifistic'-adjustment of a thriller/detective plot. (Most Dick's better stories are, actually.) Yet, just the impression of the novels main 'theme' or content to situate/comparable on those periods by the wider emergence of a drug-affected youth culture (the '60s' years from mind-altering hallucinogens) makes it quite automatically read as a similar socio-critical view as the 'Cuckoo's nest'. The confrontation of the individual and the society's alienation, confrontation of the permissive and non-permissive freedoms. Drugs as the transmissive element.

; ...Yet, I'm not to offer anything else said for backgrounds to it's reading (Several years from when I read that). ; Dick's book also fx has parts of an article by Joseph E.Bogen, 'The Other side of the Brain: An Appositional Mind' ('Neurological societies, 1969) ...Article cons. the 'split brain', some 'psychologic novelty' finds at the time...apparently, 'cause someplace it mentioned from cited another 'psych.'-article, from the y. 1884.) In case that (former mentioned article at least) should refer to some real 'authentic' text, and it not being any fictional 'co-realities' – Don't know about that – On the socio-psychological connection of that it draws from would contain even more quite explicit presented (...the decade, the society, the drugs). There seems flourished, on that 1960s, whole lot of a psychological theory and brain-study too...along w. flowers, eastern therapeutics and the 'pleasuredomes'. ; Also, unlike (perhaps) on most pocket editions of his (plenty) popular scifistic books, on the Scanner Darkly there's also afterword by the author. (As the books said dedicated for the many victims of the said years...somewhat descriptively Dick also counts himself along those people who 'just wanted to have fun'. Also, fx; '...this novel has no morality. I am not any character on it, I am this novel.', ...seems that from say, too.) ; Suppose it best said only from many ways rather typical Philip K. Dick, fx of the drawn parallels btw unpleasant-pleasant realities of the mind-altering drugs and the social 'alternative reality', ao. 
 

; In the briefest terms we might observe all these (fictions) bring somewhat closer, make their readers more familiar on some of those alienating, often the suppressive forms...by the modern medical “sciences” of the said decades, 1950s mostly. (Think you agree w. me from those apostrophes...? If not, read again that paragraph where I wrote about that how 'unburying the dead' being the common fancy. It's equally common fancy to pass aside any history not properly buried.) ; W-G.

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'Miss is good as a mile (,or so they say)' ; Or '...and not be civiliced off the face of the earth.' ; ...Considered then yet add a few remarks as well on Thoreau. (...On begins some observations 'by and by', although the cited of his Journal) - Don't pay too much attention on those 'skeletal-notes' as such, though. 'Suppose those (here) largely of sole reason that, to my recent readings having run on a word from Thoreau and his, sort from, say 'playful paradoxes', referred from to some puns... Reasons from emphasize/mention (that) of because I think of had learnt quite somewhat from these said 'puns'. As I also quite agree w. a view Edward Said on someplace (Orientalism., 1970s) written – about smght like - that to an unprejudiced researcher to the West-European literatures it takes not from very to long recognize that most intellectuals of the 1800s had certain type views concerning the race(s). – And I also think it, perhaps, pays it's worth to pay some attention on concept race and these terms, in the light of that.

Yet, as well, the reasons to these few observances of purely some my interest only. The word itself, it just a descriptive term of course. A noun specifically no more. ...Anyway, anyhow, I'm also actually find myself not too much familiar of the word itself, I now fx notice that on the Dictionary-definition it explained as following; 'The playful use of a word in two different senses or of words, similar in sound but different in meaning.' (; Cassell's) ...might be as much telling of my own unawareness of the actual content/meaning by that word, pun. I instantly considered it for a disparaging term, fx – But actually that feels also to classificatory word, sort of a category - for smght. (Well, maybe so, isn't that quite neat. But suppose no reasons from us to concern oourselves on any singular words on this...It's those periods of time we're supposed from find some interest, some views to.) 

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; ...To an additional side-mention (only), I've since my latest remarks claiming differently also noted fx that word 'savage' yet (relative, occasionally) often been used by Thoreau too, at his writings. - Albeit not in the quite specific often or by too explicit underrating sense (...the manner often more usual on his times, the 1800s.) ; More interesting is of course how many from Thoreau's contemplates quite interestingly anticipate some aspects which were (soon after seen to take an overwhelming importance cons. views on and about humanity – The usual timing places that for about 1860s and Darwin's then published theory on evolution, w. it's the several various more bad-reputed 'adaptations' from. ; But to this my interest merely from because I think often on his (Thoreau's) writings the more notable/'traceable' word (/'concept') is often race, instead of what maybe still then (was) common more 'old-fashioned' a term with uses, class. ; Maybe it relates more to the fact that various peoples and cultures were increasingly finding themselves in contact about the time from early 1800s, not the least of because of the colonial wars, and power struggles, and also the European population growth near that time rapidly increased also the transmission from peoples to those colonies. ; 'The races of men', heroism of the races, 'typical to his race...', the savage races, the civilized races, ...None (of these) examples also not nearly anything what would be exclusively, solely limit to words by Thoreau (most picked of texts by else writers). But it must've become more common to uses on the common general language, already since by that early 1800s. (Maybe. ...From our modern perspective, bit like that pun, it also probably jumps for the reader's eye more specifically than many cases the actual importance of.) ; ...Perhaps the subject also fills some book-shelves of the academic studies, dissertations, and alike, dont' know from of specific, can't say what might make most reliable...from any 'comprehensive' view to that.

; ...Besides that, of course, by that time existed slave-economy was the continuing subject for many debates, anycase. (On both sides Atlantic.) Therefore, and not the least due because of that, the 'race mattered' no doubt. On the american part, slaves 'acquired' for the plantations were from far distant elsewhere, beyond seas, and from origin formed of captives (of Africa, practically exclusively) by different skin-color. But the economy mattered quite as much, for example since (the slaves) were also property to their 'owners' and in principle weren't thought from any other actual place in the society. (So after the overall abolition, ie the ends of the slavery-system, seems it also observed noted that the newly freed slaves were soon to find themselves largely to 'un-needed' class. For the most then provided 'tasks', or any jobs generally, on their replace also was - during those times, from since that 1840 to 1860/80 - the steady increase/or continous supply from the peoples emigrating from Europes.) Where the economy matters most, the social equality doesn't usually soon improve, of any considerable level. (Or the progress might be slow - takes, say, a hundred years.)

;...To my finding, Thoreau seems indeed been capable from ...'write like an angel', and a very careful reader wouldn't perhaps left aside to observe what are/might be his apprehensions, or 'subclauses', in the literatural expressions used; What seeked raise forth, or maybe leave aside too. However, as I try from follow some advice (...that from that 1970s, possibly...), 'to find an angel, you need to know where angel fell' – So far I've not, however, noted from any place where fell might've happened (Except maybe occasionally to subliminate his topics an' the emotional impression from. - The usual 'sin' at his times...Yet, as we at present tend highlight the rational at the cost of the emotional, 'guess we wouldn't otherways find the lot from our current lifes so devoid of life.) Anyway, I have, to these my shortly grasped views, some slight enchantement of to notice that the man clearly wasn't any angel, nor prophet, (an 'enlightened') priest is more closer to my finding. Or a 'priestess' maybe is more proper term, from due his 'leanings' from that transcendent-romantic spirituality, maybe paganism in the eyes of a religious or (quite as reliably) some profane 'common lot' from comtemporaries. Whether his 'shepherded' flock then might've headed anywhere to his guiding, or how many there were on that 'flock' by the period – seems itself quite non-significant (It fx seems usual noted that most copies from Walden-text were left to his dispersal for his friends, as the book wasn't by it's time any success.)

Anycase, I find, Thoreau is yet most on his own, exciting, and most readsworth – notwitstanding of most truthful – on his views of the Natures, the actual wilderness (on this case described.) Not it's most learned 'mediator', or maybe not even comparable for an ecologist (in the modern sense). But I think him for the most interesting nature writer, not just because from his any 'philosophe', or because his 'defense' of those then existed wildwoods, but too of the manner he by many ways reflects his era.

; For closing of this (post), few sentences of the 'Chesuncook.' (on The Maine Woods. 1864), only to show some example from where resides his qualities to skillful writer – The few paragraphs picked for this take use of mention, characteristically, a common usual minute being, some that naturally familiar to most any readers (from his or to us at modern times). That way, sort of, the timelessness by Nature is united to a longer historical view, that from the gradual loss from the original wildernes(ses) : 

“...true, the map may inform you that you stand on land granted by the State to some academy, or on Bingham's purchase, but these names don't impose on you, for you see nothing to remind you of the Academy or of Bingham. ...in Charles the Second's time 'there were woods in the island so complete and extensive, that it is said a squirrel might have travelled in several parts many leagues together on the tops of the trees.' If it not for the rivers, (and he might get round their heads,) a squirrel could here travel thus the whole breadth of the country.” 

  (; Ibid.), as above, W-G.

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Pics; On the line of their order (about) ; ...from (O'Donnells) Modesty Blaise (from 'The Alternative Man' -83, latter Modesty-pic from 'Wild Boar', -86, bubble-txt on slight modified ; Aya, of Life in the Yop City, cover-p. (Abouet-Oubrerie)  ; Alix Yu Fu (of 'Tigresse Blache-series, Conrad et Wilbur.) ; Laureline (of ''Ouvre temps', final on Valerian-saga , 2010s, about?) ; 'Princess from outer space, last of her race', likewise ('Ouvre temps') ; (the poster-advert, targeted for the emigrés), of the 1800s.

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