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The Tree Of Life, The Fruit Of Knowledge, Of Good & Evil
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:20pm BST by Tony
The notion that “…..deafness restricts and thins out the supply of new ideas and experience on which the novelist depends to create his fictions…….” is still spinning me out. I’ve read and heard many ignorant [willfully and otherwise] things about deafness in my time, but this one really rankles, in that it encapsulates what hearies really believe to be the defining point of deafness: it’s limitation. A definition that is derived from outside observation, which becomes internalised, and it crystallises into a homem do saco when a hearing person starts to lose their hearing. The angst that a person feels, when being disconnected from a familiar world is very real. It is made all the more worrying, because ...