May 2011
80 posts
Body Image & Spring Time & Media & Nakedness
these are interesting to read together:
http://jezebel.com/5805847/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-bikini-body
and
http://jezebel.com/5806210/whats-so-funny-about-dudes-bodies
“No female figure in world history before 1800 interested Emerson much, not even Sappho, Elizabeth I, or Catherine the Great. Even when it came to imaginary women, only Sophocles’s Antigone seemed compelling to him. Yet from an early age Emerson was more responsive to intellectual women than were most nineteenth-century men. As Fuller immediately saw, his “model of personal transformation” “opened the door toward female liberation,” even though admiration was apt to be tinged with lingering misogynistic judgmentalism.”
—Buell on Emerson
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“Ne te quaesieris extra.”
Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
[Cast the bantling on the rocks,
Suckle him with the she-wolf’s teat;
Wintered with the hawk and fox,
Power and speed be hands and feet.]
Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher’s Honest Man’s Fortune.
RWE’s Self-Reliance.
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“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of creation, if I were entirely contained here?”
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Almost time to re-read this sucker again. Ah, summer traditions.
“Emerson’s youthful proclamations of limitless freedom meet their inevitable comeuppance, giving way, at last, to his mature recognition of the constrictions of fate.”
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“The words of our childhood became strangers to us - we couldn’t use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.”
—Nicole Krauss
Like to a Shell: The Church of Mary Magdalene Affirmation of Faith →
kaliw.tumblr.com
We who are homeless or suffering from multiple difficulties, believe in God who created and blessed women, men and children equally in God’s own image.
We affirm God as a loving and forgiving God, not a condemning God. Therefore we refuse to be treated as inferior and less worthy human beings….
i can feel His promise in this summer.
“It is almost as if Emerson is trying to exorcise the evil spirits of custom & fear by the sheer force of language alone, to beat down “emphatic trifles” with a well-turned phrase. The result is an essay which, at is best, is rhetorical legerdemain; at its worst a kind of cavalier bravado.”
—Thomas Rountree on Emerson’s Self-Reliance
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“[Emerson] could proclaim self-reliance because he could also advocate God-reliance; he could seek a natural freedom because he also sought a supernatural perfection; he could challenge society with his heresies because he considered himself closer to the true faith than they; he could assert that the individual is the world because, thanks to the moral law, we know that nothing arbitrary, nothing alien shall take place in the universe; the huge world, which he dared to defy, was really on his side and would not, as it were, spoil his game. The dual necessity, at once divergent & identical, to be free and invulnerable shapes much of his thinking.”
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Whicher on Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Let the Honor’s Project research begin.
