This paper attempts to discuss a possible way of seeking a temporary dwelling place for the soul and keeping a sense of “whereness” in an ever changing world. The study first analyzes the conceptions of “whereness” and still point, proposing the water face as the satisfactory means to achieve it on the basis of analyzing Thoreau’s Walden, then in a comparative way this paper examines several texts concerning the experiences and representations of physical and spiritual contacts with running water like rivers or still water like lakes, among which the texts concerning the English lakes are given main attentions. The study finds that the preferable mode of experiencing and representing lake denotes the universality and should be adopted more.
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