DAT-3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sonnet 18, Tropical Year, Rhetorical Question
18 Jul 2018
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1. explain the distinction beerbohm makes between going out for a walk and being taken out for a walk. Beerbohm explains how his brain shuts off when being taken for a walk. Also, he does not ever see himself voluntarily going out for a walk: beerbohm offers the excuse i have some letters to write . List three reasons why this excuse does not work. It compels you to rise from your chair, go to a writing-table, and sit improvising a letter to someone until the walkmonger shall have lumbered out of the room. Remember, depending on the type of essay--informal or formal--it might not be explicitly stated. Walking for walking"s sake may be as highly laudable and exemplary a thing as it is held to be by those who practise it. Beerbohm"s essay is informal, the following quotes are examples. It is a fact that not once in all my life have i gone out for a walk.
