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A response which has been emitted in overt form may be recalled or revoked by an additional response. The conspicuous external record of written verbal behavior may affect the “speaker” before it reaches any “listener” and may be crossed out, erased, struck over, or torn up. The writer has reacted to, and rejected, his own behavior . . . Comparable “editing” of vocal behavior is more ephemeral and hence harder to describe. (p. 369)