go to the world wide web and find the identification for a figure that i write about rolf -- ralph waldo emerson is a prominent person in my book i know about him but my reader will want to know that he was the most important 19th century writer in the united states. >> host: your desk has one picture on its and it is freud. >> guest: and this is a piece by helen gallagher. the picture is a freud sketching and as far as i know he did not sketch. but the woman in the picture is the actual artist but she is wearing the outfit of the white slave figure that was so important in the 19th and 20th century western art and particularly for my piece. she is putting herself in a situation and then having prorated sketch herbert it is a wonderful and. i am actually an art student. so this reminds me that i do have another life and it can be academic and art can be academic and also rewarding and interesting. on the wall is the cover from "the new yorker". i admire her work very much she is a brilliant technical our test i would not like to live in her head but i think she understands a lot of what was goin

as ralph waldo emerson said 150 years ago on my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. moot what i have done in this book is essentially surveyed many the greatest thinkers of all times going back to aristotle and stick to this, confucious, marcus aurelius, going from history, thomas jefferson, albert einstein, bertram russell n.t. contemporaries writers today. in fact several luminaries who have been here in freedomfest including charles murray, michael sherman and others. most of these essays originally appeared in an e letter that i read called spiritual wealth and if you are interested in checking it out you can go to spiritual wealth.com. the letter is free if you want to sign up for kooi don't famu horse then you any, sell your e-mail names. people often ask me what the mean exactly by spiritual wealth? here is the way i see it. everything in your life that you are grateful four, that you can put a price tag on, and your home, darcars, your bank accounts, your stock portfolio, your golf clubs, your elvis memorabilia, all those things cycle material wealth and ever

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ralph waldo emerson said, there is creative reading as well as creative writing and the panel celebrates creative reading. as i said these are very ambitious topics for an hour panel discussion, and we have four writers who have addressed these questions in various and compelling ways, and there is no shortage here of idea and opinions. so, i want you to hear from each of the panelists, and then we'll have more general questions, so, first, i'd like to ask each panelist, and we'll go in alphabetical order they have an interesting project which had to do with setting out a course of reading and would like them to briefly tell us about the projects and jane, we'll talk about 13 ways and let's start with laura. >> i thought i had dodged the bullet there! [laughter]. >> sorry! >> my book is about my childhood relationship to c st. louis's "chronicles of narnia" which were my favorite books when i was a kid. and which i have probably read... ten to 20 tierjs depending on which volume we're talking about, and the disillusionment i felt when i was in my early teens and discovered that they had