TY - JOUR
AU - Whitaker, Albert
AB - Albert Keith Whitaker 'n the midst of Nathaniel Hawthorne's much celebrated short story, "The .Celestial Railroad" (1843), which recreates the journey of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress by train, Hawthorne and his fellow passengers ride by the cave where, in Bunyan's day, lived the cruel giants Pope and Pagan. These two had disappeared, but in their den now dwelt a new menace, "the Giant Transcendentalist," to whom Hawthorne gave this amusing description: As to his form, his features, his substance, and his nature generally, it is the chief peculiarity of this huge miscreant, that neither he for himself, nor anybody for him, has ever been able to describe them. As we rushed by the cavern's mouth, we caught a hasty glimpse of him, looking somewhat like an ill-proportioned figure, but consid- erably more like a heap of fog and duskiness. He shouted after us, but in so strange a phraseology that we knew not what he meant, nor whether to be encouraged or affrigh ted. In traveling about contemporary academia, especially the haunts of phi- losophy and English, one is likely to stumble upon the lair of a new monster, one that bears considerable resemblance to Hawthorne's dreamy vision. It 
TI - Critical thinking in the tower ivory
JF - Academic Questions
DO - 10.1007/s12129-002-1059-2
DA - 2002-07-25
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/critical-thinking-in-the-tower-ivory-d27FPFRYOl
SP - 50
EP - 59
VL - 16
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -