...opportunity by listening. Bacon calls this a "second fruit of friendship": his wits and understanding do clarify and break up. in the communicating and...orderly; He seeth how they look when they are turned mto words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself.*' Other times friends can make contributions to finding...

...someone to think to. Through communication with a friend, says Bacon, a man comes to know his own mind: He tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth...and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.9' Intimacy requires knowledge as well as feelings. Deep intimacy requires deep knowledge,...

...that, certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and...more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are tamed Into words : finally, he waxeth wiser than himself ; and that more by an hour's discourse than...

...confusion of thoughts' (393). In communicating 'and discoursing with another ... [the troubled person] tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them...seeth how they look when they are turned into words' (393-4). Bacon's observations become pertinent to Paradise Lost when Satan and Adam, finding themselves...