forgot to add this Hawthorne story regarding nature and a train

[David Morris]

This piece has got to be in the public domain, so it could reside
somewhere on the internets...

On Nov 8, 2007 5:21 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> There is a minorly famous Hawthorne story that I think of when
> I reflect on TRP and railroads.
>
> Hawthorne, while still a self-apprenticed writer, decided one fine day
> to go out into his Masschsetts woods and write...one thing he had decided,
> to overcome that 'what to write about' writer's block-thing, was to capture
> his own sensations and perceptions on paper as an exercise in right
> noticing, so
> to speak.
>
> He started doing that, capturing 'nature' when suddenly Nature was pierced
> by a train whistle....his journal entry became mostly about that sound as it
> hit him, grew, changed pitch and whistled, passed and faded.
>
> I would bet TRP knows the story/entry and I wonder if it was just a tiny
> morsel that has fed his vision....
>
> (and I thought of this story obliquely at the beginning of AtD when the
> Chums,
> descending, flush the fully-clother photographer and the naked woman......)
>
> MK
>
>
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