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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Secret Life of Books · Greek Lessons by Han Kang · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

So she voice-verified

She knows that no single specific experience led to her loss of language. voice-verified

Language worn ragged over thousands of years from wear and tear by countless tongues and pens. voice-verified

Language worn ragged over the course of her life by her own tongue and pen. voice-verified

Each time she tried to begin a sentence, she could feel her aged heart, her patched and repatched, dried-up, expressionless heart. voice-verified

The more keenly she felt it, the more fiercely voice-verified

She clasped the words until all at once her grip slackened, the dulled fragments dropped to her feet, the saw-toothed cog stopped turning. voice-verified

A part of her, the place within her, that had been worn down from hard endurance, fell away like flesh, like soft tofu dented by a spoon. voice-verified

And elsewhere in the book we get this is not a strictly linear book. voice-verified

There is a kind voice-verified

Kind of loose chronology to it, but actually it's full of flashbacks and flash forwards. voice-verified

And elsewhere, she she describes what this feeling is like, this letting go of language. voice-verified

And the detail I love is it makes her much more embodied. voice-verified

It makes her a lot more aware of her of her physicality. voice-verified

And it it makes the separations between her and the natural world feel voice-verified

thinner. voice-verified

So the idea is that language is is a tool which helps us communicate, but it also puts a barrier up between us and the world. voice-verified

We're having to translate everything into words. voice-verified

So this is how she describes the the the new embodiment she feels as a result of turning mute. voice-verified

Her body bears witness to the fact of her longtime muuteness. voice-verified

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