Saturday, October 20, 2007

On Emerson

Although I don't like Emerson's writing (long, wordy, and superfluous), I enjoyed his phrase "transparent eyeball."

Besides it being quite a silly image, it does have some meaning to me.

The transparent eyeball seems to look past what mere rods and cones depict--it's seeing and understanding beyond face value and first impressions.

Take it for what it's worth. I'm just glad that in my 50-page reading assignment last week, Emerson wrote one interesting line.

1 comments:

Amy said...

Sad that all that reading yielded one good line you remember. Now that you're graduated, you don't even have to remember that! ;)