Listen "Episode 77 The erotic power of syllables"
Episode Synopsis
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. Take my free course, Writing through the Lens of Language, to explore the experiential aspects of 'inhabiting language' in more detail. Follow me on Instagram @grammarfordreamers, Facebook www.facebook.com/Grammarfordreamers/ or Twitter @jodieclarkling Subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you like to listen. Rate, review, tell your friends!
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