Word: glossolaha
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...subtitled "Fiction for Print. Tape, Live Voice," and was originally scheduled for publication accompanied by tapes. Packaging prohibited it, and this certainly kept Barth's effort from full realization. In any case, among some disappointments, two strains of experimentation stand out. The first is a movement (in stories like Glossolaha or Two Meditations) toward the elimination of plot and character altogether leaving only words in sequence language to sound and rhythm. But this reaches something of dead end, and Barth has not returned to it since. The second strain of experimentation has proved more useful It is Barth's return...
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