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...
Voice communications
Consider the vital role of the herald before mechanical forms of broadcast, and how important the quality and strength of...
Ajax and Alamein
Logue’s rendering of Homer is powerful because he makes it immediate, either by transporting you through sheer force of description...
Like the lowing of a cow
Nature's hoarse summer voice? Â Wind shuffling leaves and crickets rubbing hands together? Â I like the metaphor, but nevertheless can't quite...
Desert-roughened voice
This refers to Salome (not that Salome), the upright, powerful wife of Zebedee, whose anger terrifies her son because it...
A rolling boulder
Nanny Slagg meets an old man of the Dwellers, the humble people who live limpet-like on the outer walls of...
Half-strangled tones
For most of Banffy's Transylvanian Trilogy, Julie Ladossa is a vanished ghost of a woman, who left her husband and...
Prunesquallor’s voice
The physician of Gormenghast is one of the most likeable, humane and sane of the colourful characters that people the...
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...
A remembered voice
After losing her mother, a daughter recalls her voice and finds the memory catching at her heart the way bedstraw...
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...
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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