the fraternising, endlessly conversing group of us...under the rustling pines....[talked of] a hundred human and personal things....[It was] high talk [in the] splendid American summer drawn out to its last generosity....[the talkers constituted] a little world of easy and happy interchange, of unrestricted and yet all so instructively sane and secure association and conversation, with all its liberties and delicacies, all its mirth and earnestness.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "the fraternising, endlessly conversing group of us...under the rustling pines....[talked of] a hundred human and personal things....[It was] high talk [in the] splendid American summer drawn out to its last generosity....[the talkers constituted] a little world of easy and happy interchange, of unrestricted and yet all so instructively sane and secure association and conversation, with all its liberties and delicacies, all its mirth and earnestness." in the context of "From an account James gave of a trip he, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and future Harvard Law professor John Chipman Gray took to the White Mountains in August 1865, as quoted in Leon Edel's Henry James: The Untried Years: 1843-1870, p. 231." to mean that wisdom is timeless.