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).

Spatial constraints were derived from centrally positioned representative pT20dA5 and pTI8'dA3 PNA-DNA duplets (chains C and D), remote from the out-swinging Hoogsleen pCI6 base in PNA chain A of the other triplex in the asymmetric unit.

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.