What is seen and heard

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  • Published 20110301
  • ISBN: 9781921656996
  • Extent: 264 pp
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‘What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which
the only defence is an eternal an inhuman wakefulness?
Might not they be the cracks and chinks through which
another voice, other voices, speak in our lives?
By what right do we close our ears to them?’
– JM Coetzee, Foe (1986)

 

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