Jonty Claypole
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11,327 appearances
34 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4d ago
Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Blindness and insight, as you said it in the start.
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And for the woman, it mirrors her own relationship to language.
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That her inability to use language, she takes some consolation, I think, from the idea that in any case, words are just random uh sounds that we use to express ideas that we struggle to grasp, and that by abandoning language, you enter.
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Into a more intimate relationship with things as they really are.
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That's what both these characters have in common, that they believe that through their blindness, through their muuteness, they are in a way unshackling themselves from alongside the prisoners in Plato's cave and turning and being able to walk up into the light to an extent.
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And it's why at the end of the book,
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I mean, you know, spoiler alert, as the man and the woman come together in this kind of final kiss, she the woman finds herself on the verge of being able to speak again.
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The book ends with a word rising to her lips.
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And we get this absolutely extraordinary final statement that I think another writer would just end with her learning to speak again and, you know, yippee.
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She's got her voice back and she's fallen in in love, game over.
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Instead, this is the the final line and it's beautifully ambiguous.
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As I speak the first syllable, I close and open my eyes with intention, as if readying myself to discover upon reopening them that everything will have vanished.
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Amazing last line of a book.
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And I think to make sense of that, you have to have followed what Hung Kung is doing with Plato and Plato's ideas.
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And this idea that by regaining language, she's going to take herself actually back into the into the cave.
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She's going to chain herself up again.
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And the universe that she has built for herself, this embodied universe where she feels this fluidity and connectedness with things.
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as she regains speech is going to drop away from her again and she's going to be back in the world of representations and inadequate language.
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That's what I think is going on.
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They qu to quote the back, they merge in a profound sense of unity, Sophie.
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