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Notice how they are all so excited that they can no longer listen to one another. Four monologues begin at once, with the pace of the argument and the gaps in understanding between the four participants shown by the pregnant, rushing rows of dots. Remember this when you write an argument: that they depend, to a large extent, on the antagonists not hearing one anotherfor if they heard and understood one another, then a measure of sympathy would be extended and the continuance of the row would be threatened.
We need to know how we feel about the sounds because if a certain accent or tone is anathema to us we often instinctively turn away from it, forget it. We make it impossible to use, when in fact that voice might greatly strengthen our writing. Also, if we turn away uncritically from a voice we hate or fear, then we are turning away from a source of conflict - and conflict is one of the writer's richest foods. If you can hold your feelings and examine them, force yourself to hear the voice and ask why it produces the response that it does, you are beginning to get the better of it, to break the fearful silence that surrounds it and, incidentally, to add another voice to your writing repertoire.
Phallic worship ... look at Galileo ... this has nothing to ... ' I heard little else because now I was shouting my own piece about Christianity. It was impossible to stay quiet. Notice how they are all so excited that they can no longer listen to one another. Four monologues begin at once, with the pace of the argument and the gaps in understanding between the four participants shown by the pregnant, rushing rows of dots. Remember this when you write an argument: that they depend, to a large extent, on the antagonists not hearing one anotherfor if they heard and understood one another, then a measure of sympathy would be extended and the continuance of the row would be threatened.