...Brooke Davis (Kirksville, Missouri) It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery that we have made that we exist. That discovery is called...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these...

...that self-expression must always antagonize on, kicking against the rubrics of inherited speech: "It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments."26 Moral Perception and the Chronotope-. The Case of Henry James Lisa Eckstrom To. . oward...

...awareness finds expression in one of Emerson's saddest insights, appropriately enough in "Experience": "It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man" (Complete Works 3:75). 103 JESUS LOST AND JESUS REGAINED / am not a God afar off, I am a brother and...

...means of it. "It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped," Emerson calmly remarks in "Experience," "the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery...Man. Ever afterwards, we suspect our instruments." Complaints about these "instruments" — what Santayana calls "the kindly infidelities of language"...

...man's knowledge, hence from his existence). Here I adduce a passage from Emerson's "Experience": "It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are." I quote a little more than is quite necessary here, always...

...fatuous prose, he often plants a subtle truth. This one reaches very deep and deserves reflection: "It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man" ("Experience"). The mere fact of existence confounds us. But Emerson stops short: Exist as what? I...

...hissing and spinning the earliest real inklings of our bond to all that dust and what it means. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these...

...as it is painful. In "Experience," Emerson stated our problem in all its poignancy and finality: "It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man" (CW 3:43). Years later he speculated: "It may be that we have no right here as individuals; that the...

...entitled "Experience," Ralph Waldo Emerson makes a point akin to Dillard's. "It is very unhappy," he says, "but too late to be helped, the discovery we have...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors" (Emerson 1983,...

...case for the value of experiencing, he must allow himself the utterance of disappointment. He says, It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments. We have teamed that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored...