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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