Pt. 1. "For me the crux of the whole matter is language" : Football and Unsaglichkeit: End zone
Pharmaceutical Philomela: Great Jones Street
The naive and sentimental reader: Running dog. Pt. 2. "Before everything there's language" : Timor mortis conturbat me: White noise
Convergence of the twain: Libra
"Our only language is Beirut": Mao II. Pt. 3. "The word beyond speech": For whom the bell tolls: Americana
"More advanced the deeper we dig": Ratner's Star
"The deepest being": language in The names
"The physics of language": Underworld
DeLillolalia: from Underworld to The body artist
DeLillo after 9/11: Cosmopolis.