AtDtDA23: A Voice Reef Had Not Heard Before

[Dave Monroe]

"It was said that great tunnels like the Simplon or St.-Gotthard were
haunted ..." (AtD, Pt. III, p. 659)


St-Gotthard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Rail_Tunnel

Heh, heh, he said "Gotthard" ...


"'What could you have been thinking?'"

One of those "certain spirits"?  Internal dialogue?  "Mineral
consciousness" (GR, Pt. III, p. 612; AtD, Pt.I, p. 133)?


"a voice Reef had not heard before but recognized nonetheless"

The voice that you hear as "yours" is quite different from what other
people hear....

http://www.hhmi.org/cgi-bin/askascientist/highlight.pl?kw=&file=answers%2Fstructure%2Fans_018.html

The ability to recognize one's own inner speech is essential for a
sense of self....

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/16/7/969

V.N. Voloshinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1929)

   Idealism and psychologism alike overlook the fact that
understanding itself can come about only with some kind of semiotic
material (e.g., inner speech), that bears upon sign, that
consciousness itself can arise and become a viable fact only in the
material embodiment of signs. The understanding of a sign is, after
all, an act of reference between the sign apprehended and other,
already known signs; in other words, understanding is a response to a
sign with signs....

   This ideological chain stretches from individual consciousness to
individual consciousness, connecting them together. Signs emerge,
after all, only in the process of interaction between one individual
consciousness and another. Consciousness becomes consciousness only
once it has been filled with ideological (semiotic) content,
consequently, only in the process of social interaction.

[...]

   One other property belongs to the word that is of the highest order
of importance and is what makes the word the primary medium of the
individual consciousness. Although the reality of the word, as is true
of any sign, resides between individuals, a word, at the same time, is
produced by the individual organism's own means without having to
recourse to any equipment or any other kind extracorporeal material.
This has determined the role of the word as the semiotic material of
inner life of consciousness (inner speech). Indeed, the consciousness
could have developed only by having at its disposal material that was
pliable and expressible by bodily means. And the word was exactly that
kind of material. The word is available as the sign for, so to speak,
inner employment: it can function as a sign in a state short of
outward expression....

[...]

   It is owing to this exclusive role of the word as the medium of
consciousness that the word functions as an essential ingredient
accompanying all ideological creativity whatsoever. The word
accompanies and comments on each and every ideological act. the
processes of understanding any ideological phenomenon at all (be it a
picture, a piece of music, a ritual, or an act of human conduct)
cannot operate without the participation of inner speech. All
manifestations of ideological creativity – all other nonverbial signs
– are bathed by, suspended in, and cannot be entirely segregated or
divorced from the element of speech.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/voloshinov/1929/marxism-language.htm

Emerson, Caryl.  "The Outer World and Inner Speech:
   Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language."
   Critical Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2 (December 1983): 245-64.

http://www.jstor.org/view/00931896/ap040038/04a00030/0

http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v10/v10n2.emerson.html


"'We're coming out of the tunnel.  I have to be somewhere else.'"

Where?  Cf. Orpheus and Eurydice?  Dante and Virgil?  Help!  Thanks ...