The Brooke-Rose Omnibus by Brooke-Rose Christine

Author:Brooke-Rose, Christine [Brooke-Rose, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847775757
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: 2012-07-26T20:00:00+00:00

Siegfried works with his eyes and hands as well as with his ears and voice. He lip-reads the speaker on the dais through the small glass booth and in the next split second hears the expected English syllables of problems we should consider today for the sake of mutual understanding the advancement of learning the true state of things that pour into the earphones through the distant brain way up and out into the mouthpiece in simultaneous German. Two channels keep the mind alert he says the eyes the ears or three for he shapes the words with his hands reproducing the speaker’s gestures to keep his mind alert since the delegates in the audience do not watch him in the glass booth but only the speaker or more often each other in whispers or their notes, waiting for their turn to shine.

— How can you work with only your ears and voice?

— Well, and the brain.

The distant brain way up.

— You don’t watch the speaker and you keep your eyes quite closed.

Fixed on the words as they pass through the transmuter in the brain, the hands quite still on the desk, forming a squat diamond space with the two index-finger-tips touching away from the body, the thumbs pressing each other towards it and sometimes all the fingers touching like a cathedral roof. But you never see his gestures. You close your eyes and watch the words as they pass through the transmuter behind your closed eyelids what goes on there?

Steadily, in well formed phrases hitting the German nail on the French pinpoint. Unless alternatively concision shrinks the abstractions like angels to a pinhead and the pinhead pricks the Gallic nuance which escapes like gas depending on the speaker’s nationality in French, Hungarian for instance or Chinese or mediocre, depending on the theme the time the place the climate, whether canyons or mountains create different pressures and great holes of air into which the plane sinks suddenly with a lilt of the stomach as in the Výtah——Ascenseur. Přivolávač it says, Appel.

— In der Luft gibts keine Grenzen. The dark handsome Viennese leans right across from the left to photograph the Danube which from der Luft looks actually quite blue to prevent any true exchange of thoughts above the close breath and perhaps intentional nearness unless he genuinely wants to photograph die Donau für die Kinder with a tip of nose in the foreground and maybe a dark green shoulder or curve of bosom even and the enormous wing spreading back moving at speed over the Danube quite blue from der Luft and gone.

— Ah but airports have frontiers. And travel-talk ensues with Herr Helmut von Irgendetwas who travels in textiles as others travel in simultaneous interpretation. To inflate jacket pull red toggle (1). To top up, blow into mouthpiece (2) in order to prevent any true exchange between the close breath and the leaning forward beyond keine Grenzen, obeying the innumerable instructions that translate time speed height desire into locality and channel and the slow descent into matter.

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