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work_3opiub3szfeflczubcrcxffene	Martha Banta	Editors Column: Metaphoric Spaces, Existential Moments, Practical Consequences	2000.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1858	108	67	Existential Moments, Practical Consequences MLA hotels, I shot back, "Is this an existential question?" Laughter filled I cite two moments when what I do, and am, as a professor of literature Such existential moments (in elevators, jury David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson after Emerson supposedly queried Thoreau, untactful manner.1 In Thoreau's view, Emerson's also reported on the special spaces they occupy of spaces, moments, and consequences. place are metaphoric spaces in which persons themselves up to the abrupt experience of the existential question that can come at any moment. Ralph Waldo Emerson had his own jails wished to escape, not the good spaces his acerbic friend Thoreau fought hard to inhabit. practical consequences of our professional existence. 1 The version cited here comes from Henry Seidel Canby's biography, Thoreau (233). Harding takes as his source John Weiss's 1865 essay on Thoreau. The Days of Henry Thoreau.	./cache/work_3opiub3szfeflczubcrcxffene.pdf	./txt/work_3opiub3szfeflczubcrcxffene.txt