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Friday, July 27, 2012

Here's a sentence from Thoreau's The Maine Woods that might be the envy of Hemingway. I dare you to write the sequel to this very short story.
"How they got a cat up there I do not know, for they are as shy as my aunt about entering a canoe."

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2 comments:

  1. CarleneJuly 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM

    I assume the second "they" refers to cats?

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  2. Dawn PotterJuly 27, 2012 at 10:56 AM

    Ambiguous, ain't it? Depends on how you picture the story, I think. The first time I read it the second "they" as "cats." The second time I didn't.

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