Emerson is my homeboy

I mean, the first thing we read by him is called Nature. We all know I'm a hippie, I guess, so it would make sense that I'm attracted to this. But more than that...he's just right. I definitely didn't mind Whitman or Thoreau, but Emerson was just simply more original and more creative with his prose. It was more interesting to read, I think, because you could read one sentence, not understand it, keep going, read the whole paragraph and STILL have no idea what's going on. Then you take a deep breath, reread it, and your life changes. So yeah, it takes a while to wade through all his complicated thoughts and his clusterf*ck of words, but once you do, you find that the meaning is so profound and complex and absolutely TRUE that it's so worth it. For me Whitman and Thoreau were shallow compared to Emerson. Their meaning was right there on the surface. Superficial writing that borrowed his ideas. Borrowing's fine, but then you have to interpret it, you have to twist and contort it into your own perspective. Mr. Lavendar disagress with me on this, but everything must be and is internalized and filtered and warped by every individual. For example, Emerson's writing meant something eons and ages different to me than it meant to, say, Chancee, who has had a completely different life from me, who has different biases and opinions and experiences, which effect the way in which she views the world and the way in which she reads writing. If she were to write that Emerson was her favorite, it would have been for different reasons that me. If she were to debate Emerson's main ideas, or profoundness, her argument would provide different justifications than mine. If I were to regurgitate some interpretation of Emerson, it would not boil down to the same essentials as Mr. Lavender's analyis. It would be original, it would be specifically and soley mine. Because Emerson created his own ideas and presented them so beautifully, I respect him, and he is fa sho my fav. out of the three.