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Page 391
... language that attempts the impossible and achieves it . " The consensus , then , is that Riddley Walker is a very good mainstream novel that attempts and achieves marvelous things in language . Since it is set some two thousand years in ...
... language that attempts the impossible and achieves it . " The consensus , then , is that Riddley Walker is a very good mainstream novel that attempts and achieves marvelous things in language . Since it is set some two thousand years in ...
Page 409
... language is a " hideously plausible picture " of what our language would become two thousand and some years after the " 1 Big 1 " nuclear war , Prof. Mullen notes , as would any trained linguist or language historian , that in two ...
... language is a " hideously plausible picture " of what our language would become two thousand and some years after the " 1 Big 1 " nuclear war , Prof. Mullen notes , as would any trained linguist or language historian , that in two ...
Page 410
... language - with the goal of refuting Spinrad's charge that the language is “ an entirely arbitrary creation . " In this effort , Mullen succeeds admirably , at least to my satisfaction . But as he methodically builds the case for ...
... language - with the goal of refuting Spinrad's charge that the language is “ an entirely arbitrary creation . " In this effort , Mullen succeeds admirably , at least to my satisfaction . But as he methodically builds the case for ...
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