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A book inspired by this place relates a story about a poet who regrets not catching fish like a dutiful monk because his head is in the clouds all day. A price of 28 dollars and 12 cents is listed in a book named for this place (20[1])whose characters (20[1])include the illiterate Frenchman Alec Thérien. A conversation with Ellery Channing inspired the chapter “Brute Neighbors” (20[1])in a book titled (20[1])for (20[1])this place; that (20[1])chapter (20[1])also describes a war between groups (20[1])of red and black (20[1])ants. (20[5]0[1])The (20[1])chapter (20[2])(*) “Economy” (0[1])opens (10[2]0[1])a book inspired (10[1])by the author’s (10[1])two years, two months, and two days (10[1])living by this body of water on land (10[2])owned by Ralph (10[1])Waldo Emerson. (10[5])For 10 points, name this body of water that titles a series of transcendental reflections by Henry (10[2])David Thoreau. ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Walden Pond [or Walden: or, Life in the Woods; or Thoreau’s house or land at Walden Pond; prompt on any answers indicating Thoreau’s house or land or similar by asking, “along what body of water?”]
<Ethan Ashbrook, Literature - American - Nonfiction&gt; ~26067~ &lt;Editor: Chandler West>
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2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y35100%49%0%94.43

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