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The title of Winged Life is taken from the conclusion to Walden in which Thoreau tells the story of a beetle that gnawed it’s way out of an apple tree table after having been stuck inside the wood as an egg for sixty years: “Who knows what beautiful and winged life . . . may unexpectedly come forth amidst society’s most trivial and handselled furniture to enjoy it’s perfect summer life at last!”