<html><head><style>p{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}</style></head><body><div style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Gulim;"><p>Dear all, </p><p> </p><p>Gaston Bachelard cites Thoreau on p. 118 of <i>The Poetics of Reverie</i>: </p><p> </p><p>Thoreau wrote: "It seems that we only languish during maturity in order to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish from our memory before we were able to learn their language." </p><p> </p><p>The footnote gives a citation from a French translation of <i>Walden</i>, which I couldn't get hold of. </p><p>Does anyone recognize the quote, as from <i>Walden</i> or from perhaps somewhere else? I did some search (Google, Project Gutenberg) and it seems <i>Walden</i> doesn't contain that sentence. </p><p> </p><p>Maybe it <i>is</i> really from <i>Walden</i>, but a re-translation (a severe one?!) of a French translation. </p><p>I'm hoping someone has a clue! </p><p> </p><p>(I'm thinking about that sentence in relation to a project on Woolf. I hope this isn't an incongruous topic on the listserv.) </p><p> </p><p>All best, </p><p>Sunjoo </p></div></body></html>
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