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[babygasups]

I feel as if I've been apologizing for my behavior a lot recently. Multiple times to multiple people for multiple reasons. Makes me self-conscious and pretty down about myself. Maybe it's just me. But I kind of wonder if maybe it isn't a little bit of everyone else too. I want to just blow it off, but it still just hurts my feelings a little

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Laura Ann, should we live to an old age, and run out of people to impress, I say we make sure to end up in the same retirement home, and stuff ourselves with chicken and dumplin's, until we are fat and happy again. you were always one of my favorite people to gluttin with.

'The American Scholar'

[an7ie]

i don't know how i feel about Emerson in hindsight, Laura-Ann. Really.. i used to adore him, but now he just sounds so airheaded with his grand claims supporting one's comprehension above the works of others (besides their use as reference). i think Thoreau was a bad ass ... he got locked up, but Emerson??? Honestly...????

i'm likely just mad because his grand speeches were accompanied by a great deal of independent wealth to facilitate his eloquence. A luxury those who were fighting at the time, not necessarily because of their own will, could not afford ... but those who didn't go piddle in Walden Pond were stuck doing the usual grunt work. Imitation is suicide? Maybe i don't believe in flushing anymore.

i'm ranting here, anyway ... not to add to your stress level because I LOVE you.

Re: 'The American Scholar'

[babygasups]

I vote Emerson better than Thoreau. Definitely. Thoreau learned from the master: Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I myself was going to have a mild rant on Thoreau - but I have got an essay to write before the morning - and it might have been mere incoherent babble.

We can differ. Both great American writers agree that such thought is permitted.

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Oh - and I love you.