Half-strangled tones
For most of Banffy's Transylvanian Trilogy, Julie Ladossa is a vanished ghost of a woman, who left her husband and...
To listen as to a recurrent music
What a beautiful description of listening out for someone's voice.  Despite Adam's listening for her voice so, it doesn't yet...
A voice to clear the head
Trying to imagine a 'head-clearing voice' - is it a singing, shouting or speaking voice? Â Or is it just...
The timbre of a voice
Voices are evanescent and yet they can stay with us all our lives; I can still 'hear' the voices of...
A voice like …
I don't think I've ever heard such a voice, unless it's one or two smokers I know after a bad...
Voice communications
Consider the vital role of the herald before mechanical forms of broadcast, and how important the quality and strength of...
To charm, to change …
Odysseus is a tricky hero, part noble, upstanding and brave, part slippery, trickery, too-clever-by-half. He is a compelling orator, and...
A remembered voice
After losing her mother, a daughter recalls her voice and finds the memory catching at her heart the way bedstraw...
Ajax and Alamein
Logue’s rendering of Homer is powerful because he makes it immediate, either by transporting you through sheer force of description...
A rolling boulder
Nanny Slagg meets an old man of the Dwellers, the humble people who live limpet-like on the outer walls of...
Prunesquallor’s voice
The physician of Gormenghast is one of the most likeable, humane and sane of the colourful characters that people the...
Synaesthetic sound
An early evocation of synaesthesia - I like Dante's portrayal of a voice in terms of visibility. This is from...
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