SOURCE: "Notes Toward a Theory of Verbal Music," in Comparative Literature, Vol. XXII, No. 2, Spring, 1970, pp. 147-56.
In the following essay, Scher uses a passage from Aldous Huxley's Pount Counter Point to illustrate his conception of verbal music, and he also describes the characteristic features of verbal music in prose.
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