now an example I could perhaps get some aged teeth into cheers P grumpy On 12/08/2017 17:45, Tim Allen wrote: > Don't understand the below Luke, particularly the 'but only as > speech'. We need an example. > > On 11 Aug 2017, at 18:35, Luke wrote: > >> *My aim is to quote based on theory and not novelty.*I begin by >> claiming that, due to anxiety, I write poems which could be read as >> ambiguous New Critical wholes, but only as speech. I show how this >> means that as speech they can resolve into a single moment with a >> shifting meaning. I then add that this can be written as two layers >> of narrative, meaning that in my poems quotation can appear both as >> reified speech and not. Quotation then is superficially worked into >> the reified present moment, and so novel, while at the same time >> antagonistic with that. >