...about "being beside ourselves in a sane sense" with thinking. Such wordplay enacts stylistically "that certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another," so that "when the play, it may be the tragedy of life is over, the spectator goes his way. " As the...

...his "doubleness" (already discussed in the previous chapter): "I only know myself as a human entity; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another" (Walden, 1971, p. 135; written in somewhat different form in the Journal, August 8, 1852, [1906] 1962,...

...the immensity of being outside the limited domain of the world. When the author of "Solitude" speaks of "a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another," these precedents were still fresh in his mind. Thoreau was obviously quite taken with this experiential...

...pencil, he does so enthusiastically and with feeling. The poet shares the text with the detached scribe: I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so...However intense my experience, I am conscious ... of a part of me, which ... is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note...

...Thoreau, ayant affirmé son intimité avec l'Ancien dont il partage la pensée, d'ajouter : 1 onl\ know myself as a human entity, the scene, so to speak,...affections, and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which 1 can '0/tu/., p. 11 "/6id.,p.13 '- voir ll 'ilden. op. cit., p. 35 13 Un philosophe dans les bois,...

...Nature. I may be either the drift-wood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it. I may be affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other...affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness bv which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious...

..."With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense.... We are not wholly involved in Nature. ... I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so...I can stand as remote from myself as from another" (W 134-35). Such is the nature of reflection itSelf whose doubleness infuses being with its trace....

...also distanced from them: "I maybe affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other hand, I may notbe affected by an actual event which appears to concern...the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections" (135). Or consider Thoreau's description of a self that stands apart from and above this phenomenal,...

...Nature. I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it. I may be affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other...affected by an actual event which appears to concern me more more. I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections;...

...Nature. I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it. I may be affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other...by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another.41 But in Thoreau this is not the dramatic or Shakespearean imagination which conceives of...