[WILT] Thoreau’s dirty pants

From a Salon interview about a new anthology called “Dirt: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House”:

What was your favorite story to read or edit?

I really don’t have a favorite, but there is one piece that absolutely doesn’t fit but was just too good not to include. It’s an imaginary conversation by Richard Goodman between Thoreau and someone who’s interviewing him for a job as a housecleaner — apparently he needs a day job. Did you know that Thoreau used to bring a bag of dirty laundry for his mother to wash when he’d go to visit her?

Well, no, I did not.

Neither did I.