...self-as-represented-tothe-self. But Emerson seeks to transcend the Kantian limit. Here is the key passage: In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There...repair. Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball;...

...resonant of transcendentalism. It recalls the most famous passage from Emerson's essay, "Nature": / /('e/ that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace,...eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the hare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism...

...parodied) passage from early in Emerson's Nature: In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial...tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we feel we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,— no disgrace,...

...parenthesis in the statement that precedes the transparent eyeball passage: "I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" (CW1:10). In prose as in poetry, complex metaphors make complex arguments. Anyone who reads Emerson...

...period soever of life, 1s always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing...

...period soever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial...how he should tire of them in a thousand years.... It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular...

...period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. In...

...the assertion that the visual faculty is the sine qua non of human existence — "In the woods ... I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no...(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair" — Emerson offers his famous catachresis: "I become a transparent eye-balL I am nothing. I see alL...

...Glory though in fact, Mr Bluebottle, I agree this sundae is a touch too rich, and sticky. Bad Vision Nothing can befall me in life— no disgrace, no calamity...(leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. I become a transparent eyeball. No, Mister Emerson, you loveable American, transparency is impossible,...

...period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial...(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. These observations already reflect a conscious awareness of the movement away from the common condition...