Weekly Emerson Notes
Every week, Stefanie Hollmichel posts a new response to a different Emerson essay. This week it was Emerson’s essay entitled “Heroism”, about which she comments, interestingly:
His ideas are such a bizarre mix he sounds like Pat Robertson, an ACLU attorney, and a Spartan combined into one person. If he stopped there I would be completely disgusted, but he redeems himself.
Last week, in a cleverly titled post “Wouldn’t be Prudent” she said:
Emerson’s essay on Prudence is filled with all kinds of interesting snippets which I find more thought-provoking than the whole. Snippets like “We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as experience.” And “Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.” And “The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.”
These posts make for fun reading, and she always links to the subject of next weeks post in advance, to invite participation. I think that’s a great way to run a lit-blog!
(In fact, I might like to adopt a similar practice myself.)
source: So Many Books
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