After returning, I went to Benares with my parents, for my father was to perform a shraddha ceremony there.

This is Glass as he wrote in the early 1960s: tame, tonal, tuny music.

However, as a satellect moves closer to its matrilect, it would seem as though the reverse process should take place: the rules should become more restrictive, less simple. The speakers would at first over-generalize; they would have rules which would permit utterances which were outside the limits of acceptability in the matrilect. Such rules would have to be restricted as the satellect approached its matrilect.

You see that these bodies pressed against other bodies enjoy being held, weighed, being caressed by thick indexterous hands.