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21 June 2013

'Disgrace' J.M. Coetzee, 1999

Vintage Books, London, 2011

p. 3
"Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: 'Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other.' His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul."  

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n20/elizabeth-lowry/like-a-dog

http://www.salon.com/1999/11/05/coetzee/

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/28/reviews/991128.28gorrat.html

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