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Topic: Emerson and Thoreau
livelaughlove14's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:10 PM
see but emerson had a lot of things keeping him from just removing himself...and if he had i doubt anything of his would have been published

Runpenzo's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:13 PM
Is being published important enough to demean your work so it'll be palatable to a buying public?

livelaughlove14's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:20 PM

Is being published important enough to demean your work so it'll be palatable to a buying public?


lets see... i dont think he "demeaned" his work, i just think he didnt run off so that his work WOULD be published
we'd never have american transcendentalism had he not been published

Runpenzo's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:21 PM
I think it would have come eventually, but his unpublished works are a thousand times better than his published stuff.

livelaughlove14's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:23 PM

I think it would have come eventually, but his unpublished works are a thousand times better than his published stuff.


yeah thats because of society...we all know that

Runpenzo's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:27 PM


I think it would have come eventually, but his unpublished works are a thousand times better than his published stuff.


yeah thats because of society...we all know that

I'm just asking what would his "greatest work" have been like if he weren't obsessed with being a published author, he could have been the greatest thinker since the age of reason in europe, but Throeau didn't care if he was published, he wrote for the love of writing, thats whay I like him better...

livelaughlove14's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:28 PM
yeah i understand, but as far as content goes, im all the way w emerson

Runpenzo's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:32 PM
So you're more into transcendentalism than objective observationalsim? More into changing your world than changing the world for all?

livelaughlove14's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:34 PM

So you're more into transcendentalism than objective observationalsim? More into changing your world than changing the world for all?



jeez ur damn smart boy lol
ummmm...id say a little bit of both...i think that in changing your own world, if everyone did that, theyd change the world around them

Runpenzo's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:40 PM


So you're more into transcendentalism than objective observationalsim? More into changing your world than changing the world for all?



jeez ur damn smart boy lol
ummmm...id say a little bit of both...i think that in changing your own world, if everyone did that, theyd change the world around them

If everyone changed their world then wouldn't it just be the same world as before, just slightly different?

livelaughlove14's photo
Mon 01/21/08 05:55 PM



So you're more into transcendentalism than objective observationalsim? More into changing your world than changing the world for all?



jeez ur damn smart boy lol
ummmm...id say a little bit of both...i think that in changing your own world, if everyone did that, theyd change the world around them

If everyone changed their world then wouldn't it just be the same world as before, just slightly different?


rotfl idk that is beyong my comprehension

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