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What is the hyperbole that Thoreau expresses regarding news?

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Lines: "Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he hold up his head and asks, "What's the news?"..." Thoreau is exaggerating people's interst in news and other people's affairs; they are shallow and vague.

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