Right at the start, an enigmatic utterance by Mr. Godard -- "Change nothing, so that all can be different" -- makes perfect sense as a verbal equivalent to a quotation from a Hindemith piano piece in which a simple phrase is varied and extended but always comes back to the same emphasized note.
Come on, you know, what the hell is that doing?' It is worth noting that this quotation comes from a verbal discussion in which the respondent had no written documents with him/her and so had (accurately) committed detailed figures from the Sheffield model to memory.
The quasi-quotation is synonymous with the following verbal description: The result of writing '(' and then μ and ')' (Quine 1940, p. 36).
Barzun has simply continued the conversation, spinning out a story in "From Dawn to Decadence" that is moved along, in part, by recurring human impulses ("primitivism," "Emancipation") and set off by boldface quotations, printed in the margins, which act as verbal cartouches, bringing out the links and themes developed in the text.
"A Delicate Balance" was followed, in 1968, by the paired plays "Box" and "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung," an unsuccessful experiment in verbal polyphony — three characters and one disembodied voice take turns telling a story, reciting an amusingly bad nineteenth-century poem, and declaiming the sayings of Chairman Mao.
In other words, whether you're recreating someone's verbal speech or simply re-writing something that they wrote elsewhere, you'll use quotation marks.
Apparently I lack the predisposition for good verbal memory, although I had always prided myself on my ability to recall quotations.
"Who Is the Third that Walks Beside You" by William Burroughs From the "What the Thunder Said" section of The Waste Land, Burroughs's title for his "cut-up" verbal collage, prose reassembled in columns, declares it to be a homage to the experiments with quotation that Eliot initiated.
