Support is from Ciaran Dorris, The Duplets, Kim Edgar, Dean Owens, Craig Jeffrey and John Malcolm.

I would also propose that this awareness of the insistence of the letter can account for the fact that Coetzee's fiction of the last decade (since The Master of Petersburg) operates at a fundamental level by literal recurrences--I will soon propose "dog" as one such insistent form; "shame" and "disgrace" are also likely candidates, as are the characteristic duplets in Disgrace ("burnt, burnt up," and the like).

In "Lament," the melody moves above continuous quarter note duplets in 6/4 meter, while "Elves" features a jaunty tune in dotted rhythm, supported by open fifths.