Thesis update

Fun fact: One of the things my thesis director noted was that I forgot to put a period at the end of about 99% of my footnotes and I blame it 100% on tumnlr linguistics tbh :P

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Review: Deaf Sentence

Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I remember being told about this book in a translation class–the teacher was a bit odd but she was fun and she really did sell Lodge’s work well, especially emphasizing the part where his main character relates his experience with growing deaf.

It’s sad to say I didn’t really see that in the book proper.


First of all, I didn’t adhere to the “teacher ‘gets seduced’ by his student” subplot, in large part because I am two hundred percent uninterested in an old white man’s fantasies about a young woman, but also because having Alex be the 'Crazy Groupie’ who coerces her teacher into a relationship strikes me as just a way of de-responsabilizing the protagonist. “It’s not his fault, see? She started it!”. Make male characters own up to their choices, please and thank you.

On the whole, I found Desmond mostly uninteresting, and while I was very interested with what Lodge had to say about growing deaf (and I really liked those part) they actually don’t make that much of the book, especially for something titled Deaf Sentence. I mean, aybe casually sexist/dismissive of their wives old men are someone’s thing, but it’s not mine and it didn’t do anything for me.

Plus, stylistically speaking, I didn’t like the random changes between third and first person narration—I know they’re justified in-story by having Desmond say he’s “amusing himself” by writing bits and pieces about his life, but it mostly just feels like Lodge didn’t want to bother straightening up what he wrote and decided to leave that in instead. Not a choice I’m particularly fon of, I admit—I prefer changes in narrative style to be less random.
The last leg of the story (from the trip to Poland onward) caught me by surprise–maybe because death is a theme that gets me–but in a good way. You could tell there’s a lot more feeling in this part (inspired by the author’s own life) than in the rest of the book, and in the end I wish Deaf Sentence had centered more around this experience than around the messy Alex subplot.

Ir wasn’t a terrible book I guess—I’ve certainly read things that made me far angrier than this one, at any rate—so I initially rated it three stars, but upon thinking back I’m actually changing it to a two stars reviews, mostly because “boring” is the main thing I remember about it.

2016 Worldbuilding June, Day 3

People and Races

The world of Mist was originally dominated by two intelligent species: the Dragons, masters of the sky and favorites of the gods, who took a liking for snacking on the other intelligent species, the Elves. I’ll skip the hows and whys here, but in the end the deities of the world of Mist decided to change the way things were, and now there are seven elven species (mixed unions rarely manage to produce offsprings) and three dragon species, who 100% can’t crossbreed at all.

I. THE DRAGONS

All dragons have the ability to influence the world around them in various ways (generally linked to the elements around them) and to communicate with other creature via telepathy. The flip side of that is that, now that they can hear the world think, they need to be paired with elves at birth in order to survive: the elves provide hatchling with a telepathic shell, allowing them to grow into fully-fledged dragons. This creaed a lot of resentment in the older dragons, who were paired as adults, and the resentment is kind of transmitted to the new generation.

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