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  Melissa Etheridge?...Perhaps.

  How easy it can be to miss obscure references to transcendentalist essays!

  I suppose that Mr. Holzschuh's comment about waking up people who are asleep could have been an homage (intentional or subconscious) to Melissa Etheridge.  One or both of them could have an earlier inspiration for their language, though.  I'll give you a hint: he's one of America's most influential hermits and a beacon for the American environmental movement... Yep.  Henry David Thoreau.  Walden begins with the epigraph:

  "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."

  Ahh.  Doesn't it make you want to sound your barbaric yawp?
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