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Monday, January 5, 2009

We began a close reading of the most famous passage from Walden, that part of the chapter entitled "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" which begins "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately . . .."

HW due Tuesday (second chance for those who did not turn in the assignment today):
Finish reading the selections from Walden (pp. 234-244), and write two two-chunk paragraphs explaining(a) Thoreau's statement (p. 237), "We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us."and(b) The Battle of the Ants (pp. 240-241). What are we to take from this account?