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The book Mind on Fire by Robert Richardson was mentioned as a great book about Emerson, focusing on his intellectual formation. The book explained what influenced Emerson, especially his reading habits.
Yeah, there's a wonderful book about him. Robert Richardson's book, Mind on Fire, and it's all about his intellectual formation.
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The book Mind on Fire by Robert Richardson was mentioned as a great book about Emerson, focusing on his intellectual formation. The book explained what influenced Emerson, especially his reading habits.
Yeah, there's a wonderful book about him. Robert Richardson's book, Mind on Fire, and it's all about his intellectual formation.
It's like it doesn't matter where he was born. It doesn't matter what his parents were like. It was like, what was the what's yeah. What are the influences of Emerson? Right. What was he reading? Yes.
I think it was in that book you mentioned, the Emerson Mon on Fire one where the guy points out there's more trees around Walden Pond now than there were then because the forest had recently been clear cut.
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It was described as a very good book with immensely dense writing that required pausing and reflection to fully appreciate its content.
I've been having this weird experience where I've been reading books like I read this book on Pontius Pilate the other day by Ann Roe. It's in the store I'll give you one it's incredible but I had the experience of that book and with the Emerson mine on firebook the recommended where I can only make it like three or four pages and I have to stop yeah and it's not it's not like at first I was worried that it's like my social media ruined brain like the shallow thing which I do generally have I think everyone does and then like quick it but I think it's more like the density is so immense in these books and they're at the writing is so good that you have to stop and think about you can't you can't whip through it the way that is where one you know what they're talking about and two where like if you actually want to appreciate the love like it's what they're talking about is good and then on this other level the way they're talking about it you have to appreciate just like from an artistic standpoint and you can't do that if you're reading quickly