PLEASE HEAR ME OUT ok lets play a game, are you ready? Close your eyes. Have you done that? Good ! Imagine that when you vocalize a word that begins with, say, G your mouth suddenly seizes up. The word refuses to form. In mid-flow, your sentence stalls. Your puzzled listeners frown: there is a rule governing the length of pauses in sentences, which you are violating. You double, then treble, then quadruple your efforts to say the word, but all that forms is a gagging g- g - g - noise. Your head heats up, as if an accelerator was being slammed as heavily as the brake pedal. Your eyeballs swell. Your face becomes distorted like an epileptics Firecrackers of mortification go off in and around your skull as your listeners begin to get the picture. One keeps an artificially calm face as if nothing odd is happening. Another is looking embarrassed, though compared to you, he doesnt know the meaning of the word. Another looks away - to hide a smile? Finally one delivers the coup de grace and says the unsayable word for you, confident that they have performed a great favour. Now imagine that this isnt an once every two or three months occurrence, or even two or three weeks: this is going to happen to you two or three times a sentence . Finally, imagine that you are no longer in the company of liberal-minded Observer readers: imagine that you are back in your school hostel. I guess I was about eleven or twelve when I became aware that some thing was wrong with my speech(stammerer). My memory recalls aggressively ... (to be continued).
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:45:08 +0000
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