While working at his thesis, I.Sukhovalov demonstrated his outstanding abilities as a researcher. Being deeply interested in the study of suggestive texts, he analysed the material he gathered from English literary works using 3 different approaches: phonotactic, phonostylistic and phonosemantic. This required a close acquaintance with a wide range of linguistic theories which he analysed thoroughly as a veteran linguist would, and not merely a student doing his 1st research into the matter. The results are evidently valid, the language appropriate for scientific discourse.