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Starts out lousy, concludes* better. Note (as the author fails to) that Thoreau got outside, but even he was far from wilderness.

* in Victorian terms, attributes are things you just have, acquisitions are things you paid someone to get, and attainments are things you achieved by paying your dues. TFA takes a long meandering path to implicitly explore the difference between the latter two.

  When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
  With a word she can get what she came for