The obfuscatory language of politics is used daily to encourage us to swallow all sorts of unpalatable things the closed, joyless, terminal language of rationality is used to denigrate faith in God the language of macroeconomics is used to parse humanity into mathematical units of various values the strident, trenchant language of dogma is used to build prisons of faith. Language can be twisted and tortured into any shape, to any end. There are a million words that humans use and, therefore, as good as an infinity of ways of saying any one thing. As malleable and pliable as language is, it can still be broken. We live in a world that demands a lot from language.
The short spaces of time where I did write were darkened by secrecy and shame The only ambition I ever had was to be a writer, so for 30 years I did everything except write. John McGahern, I imagine, existed for much of his creative life in this fecund place of silence and darkness of a particular quality, beyond the limits of empathy, beyond the boundaries of easy explanation, beyond the reach of his peers.
There is a particular type of darkness that attends this silence: where the light that’s required to see isn’t refracted or prismed or compromised by ambient conditions this is a darkness that allows worlds to be imagined that don’t exist, for them to be cast in the sharpest relief. This silence allows the extension of human empathy to a point beyond its natural limit, so that it surpasses its own potential for connection, and allows a glimpse of the truth of the human condition. All silences except the final one are broken eventually. Urn:oclc:807522669 Republisher_date 20170913114051 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 671 Scandate 20170913031504 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Shipping_container SZ0025 Top_six true Tts_version v1.There is a particular type of silence that precedes the creative process: unbroken, empty of struggle, imbued with a very temporary immaculateness. Urn:lcp:amongstwomen00mcga:epub:65a639d3-c47b-4702-9f2b-7fe8a17faa6a Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier amongstwomen00mcga Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7sn45q9r Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780670811823Ġ670811823 Lccn 90050057 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL18276240M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:47:20.794616 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1156719 Boxid_2 CH129925 City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1.
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