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Posted: August 4th, 2008, 8:13am BST by Tony
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:59am BST by Tony
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Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:20pm BST by Tony
The notion that “…..deafness restricts and thins out the supply of new ideas and experience on which the novelist depends to create his fictions…….” is still spinning me out. I’ve read and heard many ignorant [willfully and otherwise] things about deafness in my time, but this one really rankles, in that it encapsulates what hearies really believe to be the defining point of deafness: it’s limitation. A definition that is derived from outside observation, which becomes internalised, and it crystallises into a homem do saco when a hearing person starts to lose their hearing.
The angst that a person feels, when being disconnected from a familiar world is very real. It is made all the more worrying, because ...
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Posted: May 4th, 2008, 11:06am BST by Tony
For someone who has lived with deafness all my life, I found myself in two frames of mind when I was writing The Idol-Maker: David Lodge - Deaf Sentence, for All The Young Dudes. I was, still am, in agreement with David Lodge’s descriptions of his deafness and the shenanigans resulting from misunderstandings, not hearing certain sounds, and communication breakdowns. However, upon reading The following pronouncement:
However, deafness restricts and thins out the supply of new ideas and experience on which the novelist depends to create his fictions. That former nun’s life story might have been priceless “material” and I regret its loss. I miss opportunities to eavesdrop on humanly revealing conversations on buses and in shops and ...
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Posted: April 27th, 2008, 8:20am BST by Tony
My name is Tony Nicholas, and some of you may know me as the ratbag from All The Young Dudes. The Devil’s Playground has been some time coming, and I finally got my act together to start it.
The Devil’s Playground is my Art Space. It’s my culture laboratory. A breeding ground for ideas. Idea’s that can be expressed textually, visually and aurally.
If you read, All The Young Dudes, then you will know that I am Deaf. I have set up this blog to write and talk about all things pertaining to the arts. Specifically, writing, producing, directing, music, theatre, literature, and the visual arts.
The intention behind this blog is to focus on the arts, and not be ...
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Posted: March 30th, 2008, 1:33pm BST by Tony
They’re gonna clean up your genes
Passing the HFEB
To try and nomalise you
Because they seethe in their sleep
And keep an eye on you, So they
Can stop your hands saying the things you do
The implants are not enough
They always wear that smirk
Cause they got methods of making you hear
They’re gonna rip off your hands,
Your aspirations to shred
Another cog in the nomalisation machine
They said all Deafies scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as they make them all hear
So wave your hands or strike a violent pose
Maybe they’ll leave you ...
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Posted: March 5th, 2008, 1:34am GMT by Tony
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Fetched: January 28th, 2008, 3:52pm GMT by Tony
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Posted: June 11th, 2007, 10:46am BST by Tony
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