December 2010
3 posts
Emerson on Language and Writing
A man’s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire...
Emerson on Beauty and Art
The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity. A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single. Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. A leaf, a...
Lessons learned.
assistmylife:
Let me tell you about the time I sent a Harry & David gift basket to my boss’s dead uncle for Christmas:
That’s about it. I sent a gift basket to my boss’s dead uncle. I forgot he died, okay? It happens. He wasn’t MY uncle. Besides, who doesn’t love a Tower of Treats, dead or alive?