SOURCE: Suchoff, David B. “‘A More Conscious Silence’: Friendship and Language in Thoreau's Week.” ELH 49, no. 3 (fall 1982): 673‐87.
In the following essay, Suchoff contends that Thoreau sought to understand the mystery of nature through friendship rather than language.
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