Darkmans

[Monte Davis]

Toby G Levy sez: 

> If Nicola Barker doesn't remind you of Gaddis, you must not 
> have read JR, because it seemed to me that some of the dialog 
> could have come straight out of that book, which has to hold 
> the record for the highest number of incomplete sentences in 
> any novel ever written.

Or remind you of language as actually spoken. I've spent enough time working
with transcripts to find Gaddis not far from simple representational truth.
We're so good at completing and filing in as we hear, and so accustomed to
the conventions of writing, that the real thing on the page often seems
mannered.