“the ritual of spoken communication is so firmly accepted that few people question it or dare to rearrange it. If you look towards someone, speak to that person, saying You, you, you, then what you say refers to that person; it’s all so simple.”
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Towards Another Summer: Excerpt II
“the ritual of spoken communication is so firmly accepted that few people question it or dare to rearrange it. If you look towards someone, speak to that person, saying You, you, you, then what you say refers to that person; it’s all so simple.”
Excerpt from Janet Frame's "Towards Another Summer"
“From a gift of empathy accumulated as the prize and compensation for loneliness, for being denied human essence, forced to live as a migratory bird, Grace was able to help herself to a mixture of peace after weariness, and she slept, waking into daylight to the hearty recitative of the Village Blacksmith, that is, of Noel,who was using his own language and combination of tunes to sing – one supposed- the praises of waking, thinking of food, light, play, battle, love”(83).
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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