Friday, March 01, 2019
Four Walls
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), The Topical Notebooks, Vol. 3 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994), p. 113:
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I think four walls one of the best of our institutions. A man comes to me & oppresses me by his presence: he looks very large & unanswerable, yet not beneficent. I cannot dispose of him whilst he stays; he quits the room, & passes not only out of the house but, as it were, out of the horizon; he is a mere phantasm or ghost; I think of him no more. I recover my sanity, the Universe dawns on me again.
