Misc. backfilling...on that early Giant Eyeball in the beginning of AtD

[Mark Kohut]

In his essay, Nature, Emerson wrote "Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." Emerson makes use of the image of a giant eyeball that sees all around it and, at the same time, allows us to see into it. If Emerson is the eyeball, he makes himself transparent to all who are around him in all parts of his life. Nature was the first essay to put into words such a concept. The appearance of the eyeball transcends its own reality.    
  A-and as Dave Barry asks all over Google: "why is there a giant eyeball on the back of the dollar bill?"

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