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    #12417220 - 04/18/10 08:54 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: dr_gonz]
    #12418765 - 04/19/10 03:00 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

I'll reread it...


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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: dr_gonz]
    #12419212 - 04/19/10 08:18 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Emerson :thumbup: :heart:


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    #12419218 - 04/19/10 08:22 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: dr_gonz]
    #12419319 - 04/19/10 09:01 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

:thumbup:

You'll probably like them all.  Aside from the two great ones you're already reading, Oversoul, Spiritual Laws, Circles, Friendship, Experience (the one I'm re-reading currently) are some of my favorites... heck, all of them are worth checking out.  When I first got into Emerson a year or so ago it was one of those surreal times when the text on the page almost felt like it was glowing. Only really good authors give me that sensation.  :lol:


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    #12419323 - 04/19/10 09:04 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: dr_gonz]
    #12431240 - 04/21/10 10:51 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

You might like Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire too.

I haven't gotten back into Emerson. Some quotes and thoughts are excellent though. I'm just out of sync with the text. Maybe another time.


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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: Lakefingers]
    #12441543 - 04/23/10 12:33 AM (13 years, 9 months ago)

When I first read Annie Dillard's Tinker, I didn't understand her points and felt that the elaborate imagery was too much. Then one day it clicked, and I simply "got it". Good stuff.


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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: Arden]
    #12442054 - 04/23/10 03:25 AM (13 years, 9 months ago)

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When I first read Annie Dillard's Tinker, I didn't understand her points and felt that the elaborate imagery was too much. Then one day it clicked, and I simply "got it". Good stuff.




Neat that you've read her too. There are a lot of grains and veins and tissues in Dillard's prose. I can only take it in small doses. There's definitely something there, but even after her growing on me, I still find that she's sometimes too earnest (in a bad way that Emerson and Thoreau are not). Despite that I think she's one of the best American essayists I've read.


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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: Lakefingers]
    #12442440 - 04/23/10 07:55 AM (13 years, 9 months ago)

I've only had one experience with Dillard - through part of her short essay "The Total Eclipse," and I really thought it was awful...  crummy hyperbole all over the place.  Her language and musings about nature bordered on the offensive.  It was as if I completely missed the point, much like Arden's first experience.

After hearing what you two are saying, I'm going to have to try Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. :smile:


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Re: Ralph Emerson - "Nature" [Re: lukeboots]
    #12457756 - 04/26/10 01:52 AM (13 years, 9 months ago)

I haven't read that essay...


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