John Barth, master of quote marks
Louis Goddard
louisgoddard at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 18:51:19 CDT 2008
> I've forgotten which Barth book featured this passage ...
It's somewhere in 'Lost in the Funhouse'. I've only read the title
story, so don't know where exactly.
2008/9/24 Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at cox.net>:
> I've forgotten which Barth book featured this passage, but he managed to
> nest dialogue within dialogue about five layers deep, so that the concluding
> sentence of the passage looked like this (I've put spaces between the layers
> of quotes so they read better):
>
> " ' " ' " '...words...words...words....' " ' " ' "
>
>
>
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