Language and COG

So I was re-reading Emerson's Nature for a class when I stumbled upon a paragraph that seemed to fit very well with the Older Stillman's grasp on language as presented in his own book (pgs. 38-45 of City of Glass).

RWE, Nature:Ch.IV Language
" A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires...and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not...In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections."

If you read the first two sentences of that paragraph with panels 2-5/6 on pg. 39 of CoG you could even replace Emerson's words with Auster's and the visual images would line up perfectly with the text. What does it mean, then, that there is clearly something Emersonian about the Older Stillman's book? If we pay attention to both texts there is a lot of emphasis on the innocence of people and the loss of innocence, Quinn's deceased child, Stillman losing his own son in pursuit of the language of innocence, at what point are all of the characters trying to re-capture innocence?

I just really liked how poignant this passage was to the book(/graphic novel) because there is a lot of merit in thinking about man's original nature and his corruption fit into the scheme of language and words. Could the fact that this book was done in graphic novel form be making a large statement as to how there might not be the exact words to describe this story and that visuals are employed as a way of symbolizing and representing those ideas and emotions that cannot properly be named? These were just some interesting ideas I had about the text and I thought I would share them.