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There's portions where the voices overlapping is intentional, like calling into a party line on accident, and others where you can tell immediately from the Voi
by miltonlost 11mo ago
There's portions where the voices overlapping is intentional, like calling into a party line on accident, and others where you can tell immediately from the Voice who is speaking. Few other authors have characters you can (or must) identify from idiolects alone.
- mna_ 11mo agoThere are glimmers of JR in Gaddis' earlier work The Recognitions, specifically during the party scenes where voices overlap. But of course because the rest of the book is written in a "usual manner", you can recognise who's saying what quite easily.