Comments on: Late Birthday Gifts. http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2004/10/late-birthday-gifts/ Being of use to the world since 1979. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:48:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pragmatik · New Thoreau Journal volume. http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2004/10/late-birthday-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-52516 Pragmatik · New Thoreau Journal volume. Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:49:19 +0000 http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2004/10/late-birthday-gifts/#comment-52516 [...] journal. I own the only complete edition currently available (the huge ones from Dover), which were birthday presents from my wife and from my parents five years or so ago. I’m infinitely fond of them, but they [...] [...] journal. I own the only complete edition currently available (the huge ones from Dover), which were birthday presents from my wife and from my parents five years or so ago. I’m infinitely fond of them, but they [...]

]]> By: Lorianne http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2004/10/late-birthday-gifts/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Lorianne Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:16:00 +0000 http://www.pragmatik.org/blog/2004/10/late-birthday-gifts/#comment-157 Ooooh, I'm envious! I've long wanted to work my way through HDT's complete journals, which would mean buying them, too. (Yeah, I can/do read the blog version of the journals, but it just ain't the same...) So I'm currently covetous. ;-) One Christmas my soon-to-be-ex husband bought me the complete sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson. They'd just been published, and what impressed me most was that he had to special-order them. I've not yet worked my way through *that* collection (someday, someday), but the thought that he pinpointed something "only I" would want earned him major points. But all my friends responded disdainfully: "Your husband bought you *books* for Christmas?!?" Apparently they had the misguided notion that something like *jewelry* is better than fine literature... ;-) Ooooh, I’m envious! I’ve long wanted to work my way through HDT’s complete journals, which would mean buying them, too. (Yeah, I can/do read the blog version of the journals, but it just ain’t the same…) So I’m currently covetous. ;-)

One Christmas my soon-to-be-ex husband bought me the complete sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson. They’d just been published, and what impressed me most was that he had to special-order them. I’ve not yet worked my way through *that* collection (someday, someday), but the thought that he pinpointed something “only I” would want earned him major points. But all my friends responded disdainfully: “Your husband bought you *books* for Christmas?!?” Apparently they had the misguided notion that something like *jewelry* is better than fine literature… ;-)

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