What propels you, what drives you, what directs you in your life? Is it inner guidance? Or is it some external power or sense of exterior obligation?

And, on a more light-hearted note, what’s your favourite syllable?

In this episode we’re exploring selves, bodies, phonology and phonetics, and Audre Lorde’s essay, ‘The erotic as power’.

We’re playing with these ideas:

• Human language gives the human body the experience of existing separately from the rest of the natural world.
• Human language allows the human body to have a unique and specific experience of pleasure, joy, grief, loneliness—the whole range of human emotions.
• To inhabit language allows the body the pleasure of being embraced by a self.

The story I mention, ‘Syllables’, is available on grammarfordreamers.wordpress.com.

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