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In the name of the Bee -

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And of the Butterfly -

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And of the Breeze -

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Amen!

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Found you.

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Please go away.

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But I just got here.

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I'm trying to be alone.

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Want a drag?

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Fine.

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What you reading?

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Walden.

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By Thoreau. Have you read it?

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I couldn't get through it.

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I think it's incredible.

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A life of absolute solitude,
alone in nature.

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I wanna live like that.

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Why?

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Because. The wilderness is...

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honest.

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Trustworthy.

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Whereas all other people do is hurt you.

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Tell me who hurt you.

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Sue.

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You're still upset
about her moving to Boston?

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I don't wanna talk about it.

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She wrote Austin a letter
and still hasn't written me back.

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Hey, you guys will make up.

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George, if you don't mind,
I just need some space right now.

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I need to be with my tree.

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Looks like I'm not the only one
disturbing your solitude.

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We've got the conditional line
coming right through here.

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What are they doing here?

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They must be surveyors.

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For the railroad.

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Construction starts tomorrow, you know.

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Of course I know that, but they can't
build the railroad in our woods.

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This is private property.

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Maybe your dad gave them permission.

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Dad. You can't do this.

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Excuse me? Do what?

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You can't let them tear down our woods.

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Is this any way to enter my office?
Whatever happened to a knock?

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I'm sorry, but this is an emergency.

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They are out there right now,
getting started.

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Of course they are.

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Tomorrow is the first day of construction
on the great Amherst Belchertown Railroad.

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You must be excited.
I know my daughters are thrilled.

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Now they can buy dresses
from the finest dressmakers in New York.

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They've got a regular case
of railroad fever.

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- I've certainly got railroad fever.
- The whole town's got railroad fever.

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Then the whole town should see a doctor,

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if they think anyone's gonna run a train
through our woods.

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My dear,
the train will run through our woods.

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- It's simply the most efficient route.
- "Efficient"?

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What is efficient about filling
our peaceful, quiet woods

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with noise and smoke and other people?

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Emily, I'm afraid
you can't stand in the way of progress.

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The papers have already been signed.

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Do the papers say
they're allowed to cut down my tree?

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"Your tree."

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The big oak tree.
The one Great-Grandfather planted.

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If it's necessary, then yes.

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Dad, please. I'm begging you.

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I love that tree.

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I need that tree.

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It's where I go to think, to listen.

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If you let them kill that tree,
you're killing me.

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Do your daughters speak to you like this?

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Most of the time, yes.

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Well, I didn't bring her up
to behave like a mad heathen.

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Emily, I'm ashamed of you.

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"Ashamed of me"?

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Why? Because I care more about our
oak tree than dresses from New York?

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Well, I've also ordered a suit.

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Traitor.

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Ithamar, I apologize.

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No need.

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It seems my daughter
has chosen to embarrass me,

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but perhaps my son
will make a better impression.

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Austin, I have an idea.

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As you know,

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the groundbreaking ceremony
for the new railroad

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will be held tomorrow afternoon.

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It will be quite a to-do.
The whole town will be there.

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And I think it would be proper

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for a member of our family
to make a contribution.

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What exactly were you thinking?

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I was thinking you might write a poem.

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Are you sure you want me to do it?

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Of course, my dear boy.

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Who else?

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William Austin Dickinson,
you are my only son.

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And you happen to be a man
of rare intelligence and talent.

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I'm sure you will rise to the occasion.

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I guess I could give it a shot.

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There's my boy.

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This will be a good thing
for the Dickinsons.

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Hear! Hear!

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And as soon as
that train is up and running...

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I'm sure you won't even remember
that old tree.

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Really, her manners are appalling.

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Hey, what happened?
You talk to your father?

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I don't have a father.
Or a brother. I don't have anyone.

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You have me.

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I don't want anyone, George.
I just wanna be by myself.

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That's too bad.

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I was hoping we could hang out.

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I can't. I'm going somewhere.

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Where you going?

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To Walden.

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All the way to Concord? Why?

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To find Thoreau.

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I think he can help me.

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Help you how?
Isn't he just a cranky old hermit?

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He is an environmentalist, George.

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He loves nature
more than anyone in the world.

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Or at least Massachusetts.

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If I tell him
what they're about to do to my tree,

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I bet he'll do something.

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Maybe I can get him
to write a letter of protest.

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And people will listen to him
even if they don't listen to me.

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Okay, then. I'll go with you.

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No. I wanna go by myself.

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Come on. You're not allowed
to travel by yourself. It isn't safe.

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A lady needs a companion. And...

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I feel like taking a day trip.

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So much for living a life of solitude.

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Hi.

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That dress is so glam.

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Hi.

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George, come on.

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Finally. What took you so long?

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I got us so many snacks.

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I'm not even hungry.

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We have a long journey ahead of us.

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We need sustenance.

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- Okay, what did you get?
- Peanuts.

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Popcorn. Gingerbread.

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- Doughnuts.
- Okay.

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Got a stomachache already.

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Also got some taffy.

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We already missed a carriage
that was going straight to Northampton.

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Now we have to wait for another one.

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It'll be so much more convenient
when the train comes directly to Amherst.

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"Convenient." "Efficient."

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You know,
we don't have to speed everything up.

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Sometimes it's good to slow down.

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Why do you hate technology?

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Thoreau says, "We don't ride the railroad,
the railroad rides us."

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I have a feeling
I'm not gonna like this guy.

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Then why are you coming to Walden?

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Because. I like being with you.

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Is that...

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Lavinia!

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I thought you were the weird one.

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Another letter to Sue?

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She can't ignore me forever.

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You are really invested
in that friendship.

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It is possible she did write to me,
and the letter was lost.

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Or maybe Austin stole it.

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I wouldn't put it past him.

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Or who knows,
maybe my last letter upset her.

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Why? What did you say?

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Only that she had me chained up
in an insane asylum of love.

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If you wrote that to me,
I'd be pretty psyched.

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Thanks.

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Do you think that Sue and Austin
will still get married?

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- Not gonna be able to keep writing, am I?
- I'd just like to have a conversation.

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We're sitting on a train together,
side by side.

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It just seems like an opportunity
for, you know, interaction.

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We could share some laughs,

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profess our undying love for each other,

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discuss how many children
we're gonna have.

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Three boys, two girls?

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Fantasize about growing old together
on the porch that I'm gonna build for us.

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You know,
just to get to know each other better.

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I hope they don't.

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What?

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Austin and Sue.
I hope they don't get married.

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Because, for Sue...

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I think it would be like a prison.

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Why are you so anti-marriage?
Some people love being married, you know.

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Right. Some people called men.

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No, not just men.

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If I were a man,
I would definitely want a wife.

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Someone to cook for me, clean for me,
raise my 500 children.

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All while I got to do
exactly what my heart desired.

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You're so cynical.

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Marriage can be comforting.

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Cozy.

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I just think, wanting to be alone forever?

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That's weird.

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- People need each other to survive.
- Concord, last stop.

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Not according to Thoreau.

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Mr. and Mrs. George Gould?

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- Yes?
- No. We're not married.

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Well, this is Concord. End of the line.

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Look at all this foliage. It's gorgeous.

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- I'm so glad to be out of the city.
- Yeah. Let's go peep some leaves.

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Not exactly off the grid around here.

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Poetry. Poetry.

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The poetry... Okay.

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Poetry.

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How do I summon the muse?

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Come to me, muse.

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What in heaven's name is that?

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It's my headdress.

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Why would you ever wear such a thing?

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I wanna get abducted by Indians.

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I beg your pardon?

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Okay, so, the thing is,

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I was in town today
and I saw Joseph Lyman walking arm in arm

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with Eliza Coleman,
and he straight-up ignored me.

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And Eliza doesn't even have ringlets.

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And what I'm thinking is

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maybe I could just
get kidnapped by Indians,

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and then the chief would have
a really handsome son,

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and I could marry him
and then be an Indian princess.

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And then who would be laughing then,
Joseph?

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What makes you think
the Indians would want you?

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Mother.

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Wow. This place is so...

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crowded.

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It does seem... populated.

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This is not how he described it
in the book.

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Yeah.

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It's way more fun than I expected.

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I didn't come here to have fun. I came
here to have a conversation with Thoreau.

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And I'm starting to think
that he doesn't even live here.

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Are you looking for Henry?

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Excuse me?

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David Henry, actually. He switched it.

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Well, of course he lives here.
His cabin's right over there.

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As a matter of fact, I'm his mother.

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- His mother?
- Yes, indeed.

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We are very proud of our Henry
around here.

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You must be fans of his.

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And I imagine
you wanna get that book signed.

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No, no. I don't want to intrude on him
just for that. I...

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No. Henry is always game to sign a book.

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00:14:21,445 --> 00:14:23,985
Okay, come with me
and I'll take you over there to meet him.

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Really? Right now?

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Of course.

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I have to pick up his laundry anyway.

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His... laundry?

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This feels wrong.

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We're disturbing his sacred solitude.
We shouldn't have come.

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Emily, relax.

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We're here to save the tree. Remember?

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Yes, right, the tree.

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He'll understand, I know he will.

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I go to the water.

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I go to the well.

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The pure, sacred water of the Ganges
is intermingled with the water of Walden.

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- Don't. You really don't have to.
- Oh, it's fine. He's just doing his yoga.

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Who knocks? Mother, it's you.

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00:15:11,995 --> 00:15:13,995
- Henry, it's laundry day.
- Is it?

259
00:15:14,957 --> 00:15:16,827
I lose track of time out here

260
00:15:17,417 --> 00:15:19,127
in my extreme solitude.

261
00:15:19,211 --> 00:15:24,091
Well, I've come to get your dirty clothes.
And these two would like to meet you.

262
00:15:25,968 --> 00:15:27,508
More cheap society.

263
00:15:27,594 --> 00:15:29,144
I hope we're not disturbing you...

264
00:15:29,221 --> 00:15:30,311
Hang on a minute.

265
00:15:33,934 --> 00:15:34,934
There you go.

266
00:15:34,977 --> 00:15:36,437
Is this everything?

267
00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,980
A man only needs one set of clothes,
you know.

268
00:15:39,064 --> 00:15:42,234
Despite the endless dictates of fashion.

269
00:15:42,317 --> 00:15:44,754
- And what about your checkered trousers?
- They're in the bag.

270
00:15:44,778 --> 00:15:46,818
All right, then.
I'll bring them back tomorrow.

271
00:15:46,905 --> 00:15:48,235
Well, then wait. Take my shirt.

272
00:15:49,491 --> 00:15:52,621
You're going to entertain your guests
half-naked?

273
00:15:52,703 --> 00:15:56,543
These are not my guests
because I didn't even invite them.

274
00:15:56,623 --> 00:15:58,543
Don't be rude, Henry.

275
00:16:01,712 --> 00:16:04,262
I'm so sorry, Mr. Thoreau.
You must want us to leave.

276
00:16:04,339 --> 00:16:05,589
Well, actually...

277
00:16:06,758 --> 00:16:08,218
I was hoping I could interview you.

278
00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:12,264
Interview me?

279
00:16:13,557 --> 00:16:14,557
For what paper?

280
00:16:16,685 --> 00:16:19,805
I'm the editor of
the Amherst College Literary Journal.

281
00:16:20,314 --> 00:16:24,404
Many of the students at our school
are great admirers of yours.

282
00:16:25,152 --> 00:16:27,402
Would it be possible
to ask you a few questions?

283
00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:29,487
Don't, George, he wants us to leave...

284
00:16:29,573 --> 00:16:30,993
Yeah. I can make time for that.

285
00:16:31,074 --> 00:16:32,874
Why don't you both come in?

286
00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:41,206
I hope you're not hungry...

287
00:16:42,836 --> 00:16:44,796
because all I have is beans.

288
00:16:52,179 --> 00:16:55,059
So, my main question is...

289
00:16:55,891 --> 00:16:57,101
Don't you ever get lonely?

290
00:16:57,976 --> 00:16:59,726
- Never.
- Really?

291
00:17:00,187 --> 00:17:03,977
I find it wholesome to be alone
the greater part of the time.

292
00:17:04,066 --> 00:17:08,986
To be in company, even with the best,
is soon wearisome and dissipating.

293
00:17:09,445 --> 00:17:11,655
I love to be alone.

294
00:17:12,699 --> 00:17:17,499
I never found a companion
that was as companionable as solitude.

295
00:17:18,914 --> 00:17:21,924
I feel the same exact way.
That's why your book has inspired me so...

296
00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,500
I would rather sit on a pumpkin
and have it all to myself

297
00:17:25,838 --> 00:17:27,878
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

298
00:17:29,132 --> 00:17:30,132
Write that down.

299
00:17:31,343 --> 00:17:32,853
I know just what you mean.

300
00:17:32,928 --> 00:17:36,138
You see,
I have a place I like to go to be alone.

301
00:17:36,473 --> 00:17:38,603
Just like you. The woods behind our house.

302
00:17:39,142 --> 00:17:41,482
But now they're going to build
the railroad through it.

303
00:17:41,895 --> 00:17:44,395
They're going to cut down
my favorite tree.

304
00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,030
Is this part of the interview?

305
00:17:48,443 --> 00:17:51,953
I came here to ask for your help.

306
00:17:52,531 --> 00:17:55,281
I hope you don't think
I'm gonna donate to some charity.

307
00:17:55,367 --> 00:17:56,657
Oh, no.

308
00:17:56,743 --> 00:17:59,123
No. I was thinking you might...

309
00:18:00,122 --> 00:18:01,122
write a letter.

310
00:18:01,957 --> 00:18:02,957
A letter?

311
00:18:03,417 --> 00:18:04,417
About what?

312
00:18:04,501 --> 00:18:08,631
You see, people will listen to you.
Your voice is important.

313
00:18:08,714 --> 00:18:12,134
And I think if you could write
about our woods

314
00:18:12,217 --> 00:18:15,427
as well as you wrote about Walden,
I just think people would hear it.

315
00:18:15,512 --> 00:18:17,312
And then my tree could be saved.

316
00:18:20,392 --> 00:18:21,732
What do I care about your tree?

317
00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:24,020
What do you mean?

318
00:18:24,938 --> 00:18:25,978
I thought you...

319
00:18:26,982 --> 00:18:28,232
you said you loved the woods.

320
00:18:28,317 --> 00:18:31,147
I love my woods.
I'm not much interested in yours.

321
00:18:32,321 --> 00:18:33,321
Harsh.

322
00:18:37,367 --> 00:18:39,537
Sister, what are you doing here?

323
00:18:39,620 --> 00:18:41,790
Hello, Henry,
I've brought you some cookies.

324
00:18:42,664 --> 00:18:46,174
You must be bone-tired
after trekking all the way here.

325
00:18:47,085 --> 00:18:50,625
It's really not that far.
We live just a mile away.

326
00:18:50,714 --> 00:18:52,554
Our dad owns a pencil factory.

327
00:18:52,633 --> 00:18:54,473
Yes, you are brave

328
00:18:54,551 --> 00:18:57,261
to make such a long journey
into the wilderness.

329
00:18:57,346 --> 00:18:58,886
Well, anyway, there you go.

330
00:18:58,972 --> 00:19:00,722
Peanut butter, your favorite.

331
00:19:01,433 --> 00:19:03,233
I see you have company.

332
00:19:03,644 --> 00:19:05,774
I'm his sister. I live just down the...

333
00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:09,324
Your home is far away.
And you must return there now.

334
00:19:09,399 --> 00:19:12,569
Good luck on your arduous slog
back to civilization.

335
00:19:17,407 --> 00:19:18,407
Where were we?

336
00:19:19,284 --> 00:19:21,454
We were talking about solitude.

337
00:19:21,537 --> 00:19:22,537
Yes.

338
00:19:22,788 --> 00:19:25,328
You see, solitude suits me.

339
00:19:25,916 --> 00:19:29,626
I am no more lonely
than the loon that laughs so loud.

340
00:19:30,045 --> 00:19:32,005
Or than Walden Pond itself.

341
00:19:32,089 --> 00:19:35,799
What company has that lonely lake, I pray?

342
00:19:36,301 --> 00:19:38,351
It seems the lake has plenty of company.

343
00:19:38,929 --> 00:19:39,929
Excuse me?

344
00:19:40,722 --> 00:19:42,772
The pond is full of people.

345
00:19:43,225 --> 00:19:44,805
They're everywhere.

346
00:19:44,893 --> 00:19:46,603
You didn't say that in your book.

347
00:19:46,687 --> 00:19:50,567
The people may be there,
but I have no use for them.

348
00:19:50,649 --> 00:19:53,439
Right. Except for
when your mom does your laundry.

349
00:19:54,069 --> 00:19:56,109
- Don't put that in the article.
- Why not?

350
00:19:56,530 --> 00:19:59,280
It's the truth, isn't it?
Great writers should tell the truth.

351
00:19:59,366 --> 00:20:03,196
Are you lecturing me on writing now?
What do you know about it?

352
00:20:03,620 --> 00:20:04,870
She happens to be a poet.

353
00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:07,115
Really? Anything I would've read?

354
00:20:07,541 --> 00:20:09,961
No. None of it has been published.

355
00:20:11,211 --> 00:20:12,211
I see.

356
00:20:13,797 --> 00:20:14,797
I don't think you do.

357
00:20:15,632 --> 00:20:19,432
You publish your books,
which are full of misinformation,

358
00:20:19,511 --> 00:20:21,261
and yet people read them.

359
00:20:21,930 --> 00:20:24,310
They admire you, they interview you.

360
00:20:24,391 --> 00:20:26,981
Whereas everything I write
I have to keep to myself.

361
00:20:28,061 --> 00:20:30,271
Try writing something
and not showing it to anyone,

362
00:20:30,355 --> 00:20:32,435
then you'll know
what real loneliness feels like.

363
00:20:33,692 --> 00:20:35,879
- I think this interview is over.
- I wish we hadn't come.

364
00:20:35,903 --> 00:20:37,623
- I wish you hadn't either.
- You're a dick.

365
00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:39,364
Never meet your heroes.

366
00:21:41,802 --> 00:21:44,642
So, I heard whisperings
the poem is about me.

367
00:21:56,024 --> 00:21:58,744
Ladies and gentlemen,
I would now like to introduce my son...

368
00:22:00,445 --> 00:22:02,605
William Austin Dickinson,

369
00:22:03,198 --> 00:22:07,578
who has composed a piece of verse
in tribute to this grand event.

370
00:22:09,121 --> 00:22:10,121
Yeah.

371
00:22:12,958 --> 00:22:14,708
Yeah. So...

372
00:22:16,170 --> 00:22:18,090
I wrote a poem.

373
00:22:24,303 --> 00:22:27,603
"The wheels of destiny
Have run their course"

374
00:22:28,056 --> 00:22:30,346
Amherst is getting the iron horse

375
00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:35,520
Yes, Amherst gets a train at last

376
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,940
We used to go slow, but now we'll go fast

377
00:22:42,112 --> 00:22:45,242
Through woods and hills
The train will romp

378
00:22:45,574 --> 00:22:48,494
We'll build it a bridge
To get over the swamp

379
00:22:48,994 --> 00:22:54,674
The train will carry all the people
Red-skinned savages and Negroes

380
00:22:56,752 --> 00:23:03,552
So, I can't wait to ride the train
And after that I'll ride it again

381
00:23:04,301 --> 00:23:05,301
"Again"

382
00:23:10,807 --> 00:23:12,227
Good rhyme at the end there.

383
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,490
I held my legs together
when he was trying to be born.

384
00:23:24,279 --> 00:23:26,699
Mom, what are you talking about?

385
00:23:26,782 --> 00:23:29,832
Because I was scared
and your father wasn't home.

386
00:23:29,910 --> 00:23:33,290
So I held my legs together a bit too long
to keep him in there.

387
00:23:34,706 --> 00:23:36,706
I think now that may have been a mistake.

388
00:23:38,001 --> 00:23:39,751
Writing poetry is hard.

389
00:23:40,254 --> 00:23:42,440
Maybe I should have asked you
to cut the ribbon instead.

390
00:23:42,464 --> 00:23:44,384
Or maybe you should have just asked Emily.

391
00:24:28,135 --> 00:24:29,755
I thought I'd find you here.

392
00:24:39,229 --> 00:24:41,149
I never mean to hurt you, Emily.

393
00:24:43,901 --> 00:24:47,111
People hurt each other all the time
just by proximity.

394
00:24:49,323 --> 00:24:52,033
I'd say it's the greatest danger
of civilization.

395
00:25:10,761 --> 00:25:12,141
It will cost a little extra.

396
00:25:14,139 --> 00:25:16,809
And the ride won't be as fast.

397
00:25:17,976 --> 00:25:18,976
But...

398
00:25:24,483 --> 00:25:28,113
I will have them lay the tracks
around the old fellow here.

399
00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:37,870
Hey, Dad,

400
00:25:37,955 --> 00:25:39,745
you know what I love about trees?

401
00:25:41,792 --> 00:25:43,002
What?

402
00:25:43,085 --> 00:25:44,245
The root system.

403
00:25:45,504 --> 00:25:46,674
Under the earth.

404
00:25:48,006 --> 00:25:49,836
It's just as big as the tree.

405
00:25:51,218 --> 00:25:55,428
It's like... a mirror image but hidden.

406
00:25:58,350 --> 00:26:03,770
So, right now, you and I,
we're actually between two trees.

407
00:26:05,148 --> 00:26:06,858
One tree we can see...

408
00:26:10,404 --> 00:26:14,074
and the other upside down.

409
00:26:15,409 --> 00:26:16,489
Invisible.

410
00:26:18,161 --> 00:26:19,411
Like a secret.

411
00:27:38,617 --> 00:27:41,617
Mr. String Bean, how was your day?

412
00:27:41,703 --> 00:27:45,083
Hey, Henry,
you're the only authentic living human

413
00:27:45,165 --> 00:27:47,125
that lives life to the marrow.

414
00:27:47,209 --> 00:27:50,129
Well, thank you. But I already know that.

415
00:27:50,212 --> 00:27:52,342
That woman was wrong about you.

416
00:27:52,422 --> 00:27:54,382
Well, thank you very much, Mr. Cup.

417
00:27:54,466 --> 00:27:56,256
She said that you were a phony.

418
00:27:56,343 --> 00:27:57,723
But she's the phony.

419
00:27:57,803 --> 00:27:59,973
I know that. But you know women...