The point of criticism under scrutiny squares with a possible reading of Roy Harris (e.g. 1996); every attempt to posit an abstract language amounts to 'segregationalism', isolating verbal language from other phenomena with which it may turn out to have essential links.

[…] somehow, it had become my duty to get these doofoids up to the top of the Hag's Tooth, […]

And he began to say, “Come bowels of perfection; come communicatrix of the masculine; come, thou that knowest the mysteries of the elect: come,” &c. &c. (see page 162).

Of their music we have equally amazing records, as it was heard in the dramatic chori and the compositions of their old Troubadours and Improvisatori—the Lyric Poets;