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Thoreau's observations on speech begin to reach an understanding which questions not only hte purpose of our words, but the force of them. What does it take to be able to listen well?..to communicate well? In the end, is it all a loss? Such intimacy is expressed in words! We are so often frightened by them and desire to be far enough away to turn and run. In Walden, speech is described as bullets which once in flight may miss the ears of the intended. How can words have the potential for so much power and be rendered useless? If I was to execute all conversation as I intended to, what a different life this would be!