Friends:
I've been reading David Lodge's recent novel "Deaf Sentence" and it occurre=
d to me that it would be of interest to many.
The protagonist is elderly and losing his hearing. There are some eloquent =
passages in the early chapters (especially) about sounds and hearing and ho=
w the lack of same affect's one's psyche and life. Much is about the social=
effects of reduced communication but some is also just about the overt val=
ue of sound (anyway, that's a continuum, I guess).
For some reason it brought to mind one of Rich Peet's preceptive posts abou=
t bringing recordings of bird songs to a relative in a hospital and the eff=
ect it had.
The plot of the novel gets complicated turing into a serio-comic upper midd=
le class/academic drama (which I quite enjoyed but you might not) but the =
start has many passages related to sound and hearing that I think you'd app=
reciate.
Cheers!
Steve P
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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