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necessity of understanding the relation between modernism and postmodernism as temporal, but not periodic. That is, postmodernism is modernism's future, just as modernism is postmodernism's past, but the connection between the past of postmodernism and the future of modernism is neither causal nor sequential; rather, it is an overlapping that reveals the degree to which the modernist anticipation of postmodernism and the postmodernist recollection of modernism comprise modes of repetition-with-a-difference...The relation of the modern to the postmodern, then, is one in which each verges on the other, indicating the continued presence (posterior or anterior) and limits of the other. 519

Stein's repetitions also create some complex effects. As words (for example, "feeling") subtly change meaning with each iteration, Stein demonstrates the relationship between language and time 17