... ," Thoreau invokes metonymy, the phrase compressing 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 ... . As we know from his September 1851 Journal, Thoreau found in Wilkinson a model for analogy that is both imaginati...

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... of what the majority will say about us, but what he will say who understands justice and injustice, the one, that is, and the truth itself. So that, in the first place, you were wrong to believe that we should care for the opinion of the many about what is just, beautiful, good, and their opposites" (50). As Daniel Kolak describes in his book ... Lovers of Wisdom, neither the masses or a high ranking individual can be absolutely sure of anything, "So in effect the point here is that even those recognized experts whose thoughts ... and actions are of the highest caliber cannot ultimatel...

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