The "argument" of Coolidge's work
 

Watten, in Total Syntax (101): "[T]he argument of [Clark Coolidge's] work [with intertextual material] is a projection of the interior voice onto exterior words within a specific temporal frame. This argument is both associative (words lead to arrangements in terms of linguistic affinity and memory traces of their prior use) and dissociative (sequence is used to disrupt habitual pattens of thought). The exterior vocabulary* is the cue for both the association and dissociation--it can lead into a new arrangement, or it can introduce a dissonance that disrupts an arrangement"
 
*- exterior in the sense that it could derive from found texts, "open books, clippings," etc.

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