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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549837" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Deaf Sentences</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deaf sentences cause the refrain, <br>“There’s failure to communicate, ”<br>which people who’ve been checked complain<br>when stymied by a dumb stalemate.<br>We ought to wonder who’s the cause<br>of silence in this failure? We<br>should, when we sense the silence, pause<br>and ask ourselves if it could be<br>the problems of our failure to<br>communicate. We often see, <br>but do not hear, when we pursue<br>our own agendas, sentencing<br>ourselves and those whom we ignore<br>with deafness, carrying a sting<br>that’s worse than wasps, and hurts much more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inspired by Michiko Kakutani’s review of “Deaf Sentences” by David Lodge (“Hearing and Dreams Both Fading, ” NYT, October 10,2008) : <br>The title of David Lodge’s latest novel, “Deaf Sentence, ” is, of course, a play on words, and there are many others scattered throughout these pages: “Deaf and the maiden, ” “Deaf Row, ” “I had not thought deaf had undone so many.” And for Mr. Lodge’s sad-sack,60-something narrator, Desmond Bates, who is losing his hearing, deafness is a kind of death — a symptom of mortality, a constant, embarrassing reminder of his aging body and diminishing hopes. After a couple of lackluster novels, Mr. Lodge is back to form: if “Deaf Sentence” lacks the uproarious academic satire found in “Changing Places” and “Small World, ” it nonetheless showcases the author’s ability to use sympathy and slapstick humor to create an appealingly hapless hero and to recount his adventures with Waugh-like verve. The humor is more muted here, not least because his hero is grappling with sobering matters like an ailing parent, a stale marriage and the frustrations and disappointments of advancing age, instead of the sort of career woes and sexual misalliances faced by Mr. Lodge’s earlier heroes. Indeed the novel occupies a similar place in Mr. Lodge’s career as “Exit, Ghost” does in Philip Roth’s, and “Villages” does in John Updike’s: the book is a veteran novelist’s meditation on aging and death and the diminution of youthful dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>10/10/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q>
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which people who’ve been checked complain
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