After just a few weeks, I had accumulated 80-some pages of random thoughts, recollected dialogues, stream-of-consciousness to-do lists and the occasional cogent observation.
Multiple narrative possibilities are deployed throughout, fragmented lyricism giving way to sections of prose, dialogue, stream of consciousness, slang and song.
Sprinkled throughout the gallery, the sound stations stage this dialogue, streaming Drake's impressionistic playlists into viewers eardrums. .
Practically daring your eyes not to cross, Wallace deals language like a mad, drunk croupier, mixing the book's hyper-detailed narratives with film script dialogue, lists, stream-of-consciousness, archived correspondence, and large portions of pure information whose closest relatives are found in product manuals and data reports.
There is no avoiding the theatrical lilt of Rayson's dialogue, the streams of slickly contrived ruminations that rub up against cinema's "do, don't say" dictum, which encourages film-makers to avoid the sort of posturing and circumlocutory wordplays assigned to the characters of Hotel Sorrento.
Finally the dialogue crumbles into a stream of "uhs" and "ums".
Wearing slightly rumpled khakis and waving his eyeglasses to punctuate key points, Mr. Icahn is constantly jumping from one topic to another in an endless stream of dialogue.
Here the pattern illustrates the separation of one stream of dialogue from another, though they take place across the same table.
And second, the rise of messaging and conversational platforms such as WeChat, Line, Slack and Facebook will provide a stream of dialogue-based data.
They're as disastrous with words as they are with their investigations, and their dialogue is a constant stream of linguistic bungles.
Monahan lulls us into these strange goings on through a stream of dialogue between accused and accuser, in which our allegiances and sympathies shift.
