Emerson: “Build, therefore, your own world.” Wasn’t that the most unthinkable thought of all? Because what it suggested, when you really, really looked at it, was that the only thing standing between what a person wanted and what a person got was acting on ideas no one else would even admit to having. And hadn’t his great secret, his rare dearity, always been that unadmittable thoughts came to him so fluently, so lightly burdened?
