Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion? — Walt Whitman
Category: Thoreau-Back Thursday
Christopher Pearse Cranch

Louisa May Alcott
Margaret Fuller
The Art of Constructive Criticism:
Trailblazing Feminist Margaret Fuller Rejects Young Thoreau and Helps Him Improve His Writing (BrainPickings)
Margaret Fuller
The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Women versus Women
The Dial, IV, July 1843 (vcu.edu)
Mary Moody Emerson Was a Scholar, a Thinker, and an Inspiration

The woman Thoreau once called the “youngest person in Concord” (National Endowment For The Humanities)
Letter from Mary Moody Emerson to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fractals In Nature
Margret Fuller Concord Days 2021
Success
Nature
Staff from the Old Manse, in Concord, MA read passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, Nature, which he wrote while living at the Old Manse in 1836.
