Emerson ends his essay Experience with the line “transformation of genius into practical power”. What a line!

Surely our ability to draw on the Earth’s culture at the drop of a prompt is a real way to summon our Genius.

https://emersoncentral.com/ebook/Experience.pdf

Great video of Phillip Lopate reading out his essay Experience Required which is supposed to be his modern take on Montaigne's final essay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFzBDuW82Xo

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PTerry appreciation is always nice: Adding GNU Terry to your headers

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