Perhaps I'm being slightly melodramatic. I "completed" leaf 0110.tif of the Walden manuscript. There were sections that were easier than others, and I feel as though I have a general idea of what is going on with zones, lines, etc. However, actually reading Thoreau's handwriting is an enormous challenge. That is where my biggest struggle is. Much of it is illegible, and I am still unable to find the spot in the book that my leaf is from, making it nearly impossible to figure out what he wrote. I do not recognize what I have read so far as an excerpt from the Reading chapter, which admittedly makes me a little nervous.
I also have some questions to bring to the class about what to do when there are notes written in the margin, how to indicate that something is underlined, and where zones should start if a strikethrough begins in the middle of a paragraph. These questions are noted in my work in red, along with my uncertainties about words. Below is what I have figured out so far:
<sourceDoc>
<surface
xml:id=”s_____”
n=”_________” ulx=
“0” uly= “0” lrx= “2856”
lry= “3424”>
<graphic
url= “0110.tif”/>
<zone
ulx= “176” uly= “184” lrx= “1952” lry= “996”>
<line>Managed not advertised?,
who, </line>
Note in margin – “p.62” … what do I
do?
<line>Too,
was asunder that the floor, </line>
<line>Does
_____ way under the, </line>
<line>Visitor
while he is admiring,</line>
<line>The
_____ when the ____ when the mantel,</line>
<line>_____
him through into? the _____, </line>
<line>_____
_____ and homer, through, </line>
<line>Earth’s,
foundation! ____ </line>
</zone>
<zone
rendition= “strikethrough” ulx= “1960” uly= “912” lrx= “1220” lry= “1372”>
<line>[Often
when, </line>
<line>We
____ ____ for the beautiful, </line>
<line>______
cultivated out of doors, </line>
<line>Where
there is ‘no house – and the,</line>
<line>House
- ______]’. </line>
</zone>
<zone
ulx= “1432” uly= “1356” lrx= “2680” lry= “2368”>
<line>Before
we can adorn, </line>
<line>Our
house with beautiful objects – the, </line> Note in margin- p.
63
<line>Walls
must be straight – and our lives, </line>
<line>Must
be straight, our? beautiful house-,
</line>
<line>____
and beautiful living be laid, </line>
<line>For
a foundation. Now _____, </line>
<line>Call
tools for the beautiful _____, </line>
<line>Cultivated
out of doors, where there, </line>
<line>Is
no house, and no house _____. </line> note that
text “and no house____” is underlined
</zone>
<zone
rendition= “strikethrough” ulx= “304” uly= “2476” lrx= “2626” lry= “3388”>
<line>Though
we are walls ______-, </line>
<line>-Ted
____ that we might ____ live in, </line>
<line>A
cave or a wigwam <zone rendition= “strikethrough”> to-day </zone> craves?, </line>
<line>Skins
to-day – it is continents?, </line>
<line>Better
to accept the _______, </line>
<line>Though
so dearly bought, which the, </line>
<line>Invention
and industry of mankind, </line>
<line>Often. ___ In? much a neighbor - </line>
</zone>
To put it simply, this TEI stuff is TOUGH! My brain hurts.
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