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Sounds like a good idea. I've just got to rekindle the muse, I think.

I have a muse in every city

If there isn't one in a certain town, I merely create one out of a composite of various people and ideals.

Upstate New York, it must be said, was a hotbed of intellectual activity during the nineteenth century. The suffragette/feminist movement started here (I forgot exactly where--but it was near the Finger Lakes).

Then you have the Chautauqua Movement---where people used to go from town to town giving lectures on intellectual subjects.

I've always wondered what it would have been like to have known Emily Dickinson.

I have a slight acquaintance with Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. I find Emerson, especially to be someone whom I would have probably emulated had I been his student.

For anyone that doesn't know me personally. my name is Ted. i wont go into detail about me. you wanna know, pm me. ive been deleting friends that are not worth it in this world. i wish i was in my own world where i decide where i am in life. but i cant. anyway hope you feel interested.

I remember there was a time when I wanted to be like Thoreau on Walden's Pond.

Then I found out he was rather a misanthrope. I've never understood total misanthropy.

Even if people are "phony" nice, at least the intention to be nice exists.

I feel Emerson is more my speed.

There's a book called "Writers on the Spectrum". It talks about writers like Dickinson and Thoreau and how they may have been autistic, and how that may have influenced their writing style.

Now THAT would be an interesting read!

I, myself, have been accused of writing too "academic." Especially when it comes to my poetry.

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