Homework:
If you're doing Fall Term, Heuristics for Teachers, consider viewing the below with special attention to the word "secondhand" and its context. Get your hands on a copy of No More Secondhand God. Find the essay on the Omnidirectional Halo, which later appears in Synergetics. American Transcendentalism.
Soon you'll know American Lit better than most English PhDs (who don't know what "IVM" means guffaw).