pure heteroglossia could flourish: that is to say, where Chinatown punks, Glendale skinheads, Boyle Heights lowriders, Valley girls, Marina designer couples, Slauson rappers, Skid Row homeless and gawkers from Des Moines

Wallace's dialogue owes a debt both to Socratic inquiry and to Dostoevsky's heteroglossia

whose linguistic heteroglossia swirls into a maddening cacophony

the interface between critical discourse and the heteroglossic "sublime" otherness of the novels