... nerve and degenerate into parlaver wholly," Thoreau writes: "[O]ur lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far-fetched, through slides and dumb-waiter, as it were; in other words, the parlor is so far from the kitchen and workshop." (55) Thoreau tropes upon the metonymic or associative origins of the word "parlor" (the ... ...

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