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All the individual color of speech personal emphasis, speed, personal cadence, personal pitch is a non-linguistic fact, just as the incidental expression of desire and emotion are, for the most part, alien to linguistic expression. Speech, like all elements of culture, demands conceptual selection, inhibition of the randomness of instinctive behavior.
This brings up the question whether in the art of literature there are not intertwined two distinct kinds or levels of art a generalized, non-linguistic art, which can be transferred without loss into an alien linguistic medium, and a specifically linguistic art that is not transferable. I believe the distinction is entirely valid, though we never get the two levels pure in practice.
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