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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30736)	10/3/2001 11:22:38 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

A nice web site, I will check it more thoroughly later..... I once visited Emerson's house in Concord. According to her family legend, my wife is a remote cousin of Emerson's second wife. I saw a picture, and there is a resemblance, so it was a little eerie. It is a nice house, and a good place to raise children. There was a very elaborate dollhouse that Thoreau had made for Emerson's daughters, really, quite wonderful and large, intricate and well- made. There were many little tidbits like that. For example, Emerson kept up a correspondance with Coleridge, and had a silhouette of him. For another, Walden Pond (which is really a smallish lake) is within easy walking distance of Emerson's, and apparently Thoreau visited quite a bit while living there, undercutting some of the harshness and simplicity of his adventure. The Transcendentalists represented the first wave of interest in non- Western religion/philosophy (and European arcana, like Jacob Boehme, the Christian Kabbalist). As such they were an interesting admixture of Yankee liberalism and theosophical speculation. The first New Agers, as it were......