Daily Log

Thursday, January 13

We resumed our reading from Walden (interrupted one week ago), examining the tone of Thoreau's accounts of the "shanty Irishmen" and of his root cellar, concluding that whatever the differences, the two passages share a decidedly cool detachment.

HW due Tuesday:
Read the selections from the “Brute Neighbors” chapter of Walden (pp. 240-43, up to the “Conclusion”) and type one 87-word chunk answering the following question: What meaning or purpose do the Battle of the Ants and the Story of the Loon share? (Or, put differently, what common statement do the two incidents make?) Combine CM and CDs.