[rollei_list] Re: OT: Emerson on Off Topic Discussions
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:46 -0500
> I was reading this essay this morning, and on my lunch break, and I
> thought of this list.
>
> 'Tis not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only on
> horses, or on steam, or on theatres, or on eating, or on books, [or on
> Rolleiflex Cameras,] and, whenever he appears, considerately to turn
> the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle. In the Norse
> heaven of our forefathers, Thor's house had five hundred and forty
> floors; and man's house has five hundred and forty floors. His
> excellence is facility of adaptation and of transition through many
> related points, to wide contrasts and extremes. Culture kills his
> exaggeration, his conceit of his village or his city. We must leave
> our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad
> grounds of good meaning and good sense. No performance is worth loss
> of geniality. Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
> Elias
> ---
I'd bring my pet anyway. If I had one.
But you can't beat Emerson.
http://www.wrightwoodpress.org/rwe119008pbk.html
[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner
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