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Being Authentic Can Be Tricky, But NOT Being Authentic Can Break Your Heart

Anita Mathias — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:43:23 +0000

I read this entry in Emerson’s journal when I was 21. Journal, March 29, 1832 I will not live out of me. I will not see with others’ eyes. My good is good, my evil ill. I would be free— I cannot be While I take things as others please to rate them. I dare […]

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In Which We Do not Hear the Cheers of our Invisible Audience

Anita Mathias — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:05:56 +0000

Image by Lize Rixt via stock.xchng When Beethoven’s Ode to Joy was first performed at the Theater am Karntnertor in Vienna in 1824, Beethoven conducting for tempo, had his back turned to the audience. There was a standing ovation, the audience tossed their hats into the air; the applause was thunderous, and the aging exhausted […]

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