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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It appears firmer or heavier than it really is.
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Her footsteps, the movements of her hands and arms, the long rounded contours of her face and shoulders all demarcate clear, strong perimeters.
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Nothing steps out and nothing seeps in past these limits.
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Sometimes she thinks of herself as more like some form of substance, a moving solid or liquid.
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Than like a person.
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When she eats hot rice, she feels that she herself becomes that rice.
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And when she washes her face with cold water, there is no distinction between her and that water.
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Yes, you're quite right.
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She's she's insistent that narrative can't solve problems.
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And and as you're saying, in the history of the novel, narrative brings characters together.
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It provides answers to to problems or solutions.
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And Lizzie Bennett and Darcy melt into one another's arms, right?
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But she's also she's saying that and she's also saying that language can't either as well.
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And I think the
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bold paradox in this book is that she's exploring the idea that language gets in the way of real communication, that that we can't begin to communicate properly until we're willing to look beyond language.
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And the the final scenes of of this book in which these two characters are sort of drawn together and finding ways of communic communicating that that go
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beyond words is the ultimate expression of that.
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And it is it is a a difficult read in in many ways because it is deliberately opaque.
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Hunk Kung is drawing our attention to the fact that that words can describe phenomena, but they can also get it in the way of phenomena.
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They can separate us from phenomena because what we do is we only see the words rather than the thing they're meant to be describing.
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