On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Yoshie Furuhashi quoted Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrator in _The Blithedale Romance_ (1852):
> ... The clods of earth, which we so constantly belabored and turned over
> and over, were never etherealized into thought. Our thoughts, on the
> contrary, were fast becoming cloddish. Our labor symbolized nothing,
> and left us mentally sluggish in the dusk of the evening. Intellectual
> activity is incompatible with any large amount of bodily exercise.
I love this passage too. But that last sentence is of course nonsense.
Michael Pollak Alumnus Deep Springs College