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Adding a new creepy part. Did my best...Enjoy. :) #33

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Expand Up @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ by Henry David Thoreau.
The modified version is a collaborative writing project with the new
title

The Blair Walden Project
^The Blair Walden Project
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Please delete "^" character before I merge.

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Do I have to re-push it to do that?


This project is maintained by Allen B. Downey and stored at
https://github.com/AllenDowney/blair-walden-project
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bravery of minks and muskrats. A conscious despair
is concealed under what are called the games and amusements of
mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is
a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Then again, wisdom
has never been one of mankind's strengths.

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief
end of life, and what are the true necessaries and means of surviving, it
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retain the heat thus generated and absorbed.

The grand necessity, then, for our bodies, is to keep warm, to keep
the vital heat in us. What pains we accordingly take, not only with
our Food, and Clothing, and Shelter, but with our beds, which are our
night-clothes, robbing the nests and breasts of birds to prepare this
shelter within a shelter, as the mole has its bed of grass and leaves at
the end of its burrow! The poor man is wont to complain that this is a
cold world; and to cold, no less physical than social, we refer directly
the vital heat in us. This heat not only keeps our bodies alive and well,
but prepares us from the cold world clawing at us from all sides. What pains we
accordingly take, not only with our Food, and Clothing, and Shelter, but with
our beds, which are our night-clothes, robbing the nests and breasts of birds
to prepare this shelter within a shelter, as the mole has its bed of grass and
leaves at the end of its burrow! The poor man is wont to complain that this
is a cold world; and to cold, no less physical than social, we refer directly
a great part of our ails. The summer, in some climates, makes possible
to man a sort of Elysian life. Fuel, except to cook his Food, is
then unnecessary; the sun is his fire, and many of the fruits are
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