... the pickerel's context in the pond's "scale of being," thus signaling linguistically its ecology of relation through biological compression. (14) In Thoreau's Morning Work (1990), H. Daniel Peck has Jakobson's definition of metonymy in mind when he characterizes Thoreau's relational imagination and his journal's "endless elaboration of the natural world through association." (15) In its attention to particularity and to context ... in depth, and resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated lobed and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; or you are reminded of coral, of leopards' ...

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