Comments on: One more thing about me… http://pastispresent.org/2009/good-sources/one-more-thing-about-me/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed the past is our present to you from the American Antiquarian Society Mon, 21 May 2012 18:52:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: A. Cataldo http://pastispresent.org/2009/good-sources/one-more-thing-about-me/comment-page-1/#comment-28 A. Cataldo Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:01:49 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=547#comment-28 "Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself." Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in Cindy Dickinson's "Creating a World of Books, Friends, and Flowers: Gift Books and Inscriptions, 1825-1860." Perhaps we should be criticizing not the narcissistic tendencies present in the Facebook world but its failure to engage in the nineteenth-century reciprocal individuality of its antecedents! Nice work, Diann! “Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in Cindy Dickinson’s “Creating a World of Books, Friends, and Flowers: Gift Books and Inscriptions, 1825-1860.”

Perhaps we should be criticizing not the narcissistic tendencies present in the Facebook world but its failure to engage in the nineteenth-century reciprocal individuality of its antecedents! Nice work, Diann!

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