5) Ken Kifer的评说也附在这里:梭罗描写的瓦尔登湖,让读者觉得神秘,但对于康科德人来说,瓦尔登湖不过就是附近一个小池塘。但在梭罗的想像中,他生活在完全不同的地方,不同的时间,即一个遥远的太阳系中,历史上他最喜欢的时间。他把瓦尔登湖描写得对他人来说那么遥远,让我想到他在前面《瓦尔登湖》第二段中曾说如果谁“曾真诚地生活过,那必定是在一个离我遥远的地方。”(Thoreau makes Walden Pond seem magical to his readers, yet to the people of Concord, it must have been just another small, nearby pond. But in his imagination, he lived in a different place and time, a place in some distant solar system and during his favorite moment in history. His locating Walden so remotely from everyone else makes me think back to the second paragraph in Walden where he claims that if someone "has lived sincerely, it must be in a distant land to me." )