tautophony

Updated: May 22, 2025

Out of the familiar, hollow tautophony of drumbeats there began to emerge a thread of actual melody an untraditional rise and fall of notes a tentative attack as it were, on the chromatic scale of the west. No he-goat's skin stretched on bamboo would do that. We pushed on, curious. We came out into the "place."

- The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story