Though it seems to be plain and nonsense at the first glance, Goldsmith’s Traffic is an evocative in the sense that it triggers my mental projection to envision another medium for the piece. This mental process leads to see Traffic as a blank sheet of paper on which Goldsmith pins down traffic report in a special day forecasted regularly in the radio or TV a long a 24- hour day. This projection also leads to suppose that Traffic is not original, I mean that it is not of Goldsmith’s own composition. However, the way Goldsmith delineates it makes it a compelling text. There is a strong sense of place, and though the linearity of time appears to be intermittent, but it think that the whole context of the text pertain a sense of time unity as the whole things happen within a defined time framework.
As for Soliloquy, the first statement to be made about it is that Goldsmith “write[s] the way he talk[s].” The correspondence between the piece’s language content and daily communicative language with lots of Ums, Uhs and repetitions is transparent. On the other side, one of the challenges that I encountered while reading Soliloquy is to figure out the essence of what I was reading. It was also hard for me to sustain the same level of enthusiasm toward the text as I was progressing in reading it. I think that Goldsmith is not concerned with the way and nature of the reader’s reception of his text. In other words, whether the text is readable or not is not of his concerns, but the reader should “read the way [Goldsmith] write[s].”
Here, I attach a sample that could be similar to Traffic source material.