M&D--so to speak

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

suggested:
"> I'm having trouble deciding how to hear Dixon's tendency to end
> sentences with an ellipsis and a question mark, like this...?  Any
> suggestions?
 
I'm hearing a drop in volume and a rise in pitch, a sort of trailing
off...?  (I also visualize the speaker failing to make eye contact with
the speakee -- textually justifiable? Ennh.)"


I've just cracked the book, but my immediate visualization/audiation is
of eyebrows rising at the end of a sentence spoken in a patrician
accent, not unlike that of William F. Buckley.  But I need more context
to be sure.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)