paths
05-11-2010, 12:31 AM
In the first chapter Economy Thoreau talked about shelters. He dug his own cellar in the side of a hill sloping, and then he went on to remark: “Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth.”
I don’t really understand “their roots as of old”. What are the roots? Why “of old”? Does it mean “they store some roots of vegetation in the way our ancestors did”?
I don’t really understand “their roots as of old”. What are the roots? Why “of old”? Does it mean “they store some roots of vegetation in the way our ancestors did”?