Reading Ralph Waldo Emerson

An invitation to nature

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I read Emerson because I wanted to be the kind of person who said they’ve read Emerson.

Is that pretentious?

Maybe.

Coming from a blue-collar working-class background, the fact that I’ve read Emerson means something. I’m pretty sure my hard-working dad didn’t even know Emerson was a thing. He never…