Jonty Claypole
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11,327 appearances
34 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3d ago
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She became temporarily mute for the first time as a teenager, and she's done so again in adulthood.
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And it's implied that she's always had a very problematic relationship with language.
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And there's a scene where she remembers being a young girl and learning words, and words for her.
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Have never been a mere tool for communication.
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Words have had a menace and a weight and a physicality and a violence to them that has always ensured she's been in a very uneasy relationship with them.
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And I think it's why at moments in her life she loses the ability to speak.
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She becomes overwhelmed by the physicality and violence of language.
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And this is the moment when.
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When she first realizes she has this relationship, she's a young girl and she's been studying words, studying dictionaries, and starting to think about the role language plays in this world she's been born into.
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The only person who knew that her life was split violently in two was she herself.
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The words she had jotted down in the back of her diary wriggled about of their own volition to form unfamiliar sentences.
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Now and then words would thrust their way into her sleep like skewers, startling her awake several times a night.
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She got less and less sleep, was increasingly overwhelmed by sensory stimuli, and sometimes an inexplicable pain burned against her solar plexus like a metal brand.
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The most agonizing thing was how horrifyingly distinct the words sounded when she opened her mouth and pushed them out one by one.
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Even the most nondescript phrase outlined completeness and incompleteness, truth and lies, beauty and ugliness with the cold clarity of ice, spun out white as spider's milk from her tongue and by her hand those sentences were shameful.
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She wanted to
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vomit.
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She wanted to scream.
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It's very symptomatic of Hung Kung's writing, this this ca this physicality that that her characters, not just in the in this book, but other stories as well, feel.
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They're deeply embodied her characters.
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