When Speech Does a 180

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 18 12:16:38 CDT 2002


Thanks again, Dave, for a wonderfully absurd "Pynchonesque" reference.  
Subconscious hidden verbal messages revealed by backwards tape playing.  But 
does anyone but Mr. Oates take this stuff seriously?

BTW, things have been exceptionally quiet on this list lately, huh?

David Morris

>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
>From Neil Strauss, "When Speech Does a 180," NY Times,
>Thursday, April 18th, 2002 ...
>
>"Reversals are primarily formed by the inconsistencies
>in speech: the stammers, the stutters and the rapid
>alterations," he said. "It's not primarily the words,
>but the sounds of the speech. Two people might say the
>same sentence, but you'll get completely different
>reversals."


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