Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," and more.
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Claire and I use Emerson's life-changing essay(s) to think out loud about genius, inspiration, instinct, truth, authority, failure, beauty, good and evil, history, the literary tradition, appropriation, America, and more. 
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