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It's a way of thinking about form that has more to do with
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individuality than it does with convention.
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Remember that way that Franny can identify the timbre of her brother's
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voice very specifically: it's like no other.
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So, Salinger imagines that the literary art imitates that kind of
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voice, and in that way it is a sacred practice, a sacred art.
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Barth rejects the idea
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that language is an unmediated form of access to the real:
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absolutely impossible for Barth to countenance that idea.
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He sees life as continually, always already mediated by language.
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Now, I should say, as someone from the class
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who came up to me after lecture and asked me about this,