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Gaddis General 2017-09-04 09:03:29 Post No. 9977853
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Gaddis General Anonymous 2017-09-04 09:03:29 Post No. 9977853 [Report]

I read an interview with Gaddis somewhere in which he says that he hadn't read Joyce until after writing The Recognitions. If that is so than where did he get the idea of using hyphens to dilineate speech? Is this something that has been done more widely than I'm aware of?

Also general Gaddis thread.

Anonymous 2017-09-04 09:14:45 Post No.9977877
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>>9977853
Shit disseminates. I never believe its important to see which books an author read to trace influence

Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:33:07 Post No.9978710
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Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:33:07 Post No.9978710 [Report]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Quotation_dash

Pretty standard in other languages

Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:36:28 Post No.9978718
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Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:36:28 Post No.9978718 [Report]

Em dashes for dialogue was more popular in European and generally non-American literature of the time, and Gaddis had spent a lot of time traveling at that time in his life and thus reading the books of other nations.

Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:44:06 Post No.9978735
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Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:44:06 Post No.9978735 [Report]

I've learned to prefer the dash for quotes. It makes dialogue flow better I think.

Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:48:06 Post No.9978752
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Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:48:06 Post No.9978752 [Report]

>>9977853
there has not been a single American author of note since Gaddis. Prove me wrong. He singlehandedly saved literature, and then we flushed it down the toilet yet again

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>>9978752
*blocks your path*

Anonymous 2017-09-04 03:54:18 Post No.9978776
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>>9978771
>womeme

Anonymous 2017-09-04 04:04:14 Post No.9978822
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Anonymous 2017-09-04 04:04:14 Post No.9978822 [Report]

Anyone got PDFs of The Recognitions and JR? Gagging to read them and not found them anywhere online. Cheers

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