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...home. The cult, called the Silentists, is led by a woman named Jane Dark, who directs them in their efforts to eliminate all motion, all speech and all feeling. This entails a number of rather complex processes and experiments involving cloth that holds words, water that absorbs experience and oral communication (what little there is of it) with an emphasis on vowels over consonants. Marcus describes elaborate devices designed to catch or stifle motion and psychological conditioning procedures designed to cure the women (and him) of the need for speech or emotion. Special diets are also involved...
...HEAR THIS Who needs stenographers? The Olympus DS-330 digital voice recorder ($149) comes with a docking station that plugs right into a computer. You can take oral notes with the DS-330 and dump your thoughts directly onto a PC or Mac (where any voice-recognition program can transcribe them). Leaves more time for important things, like lunch...
...Brother Blue, this way of living is made possible, in part, by his wife and agent Ruth E. Hill, who works on oral history projects at the Schlesinger Library. Theirs is a love story and business partnership: He gushes while recounting their courtship, and she, more detail-oriented, makes sure he shows up for his appointments on time when the butterflies and passersby get to be too much of a distraction...
...Mavericks. It wasn't quite the kind of special relationship with a trusted priest that Martinelli expected. On a Washington field trip, Father Brett allegedly fondled young Frank in a bathroom. Martinelli claims that while Brett was driving him home, the priest urged the boy to give him oral sex, blessing it as a way to receive Holy Communion. Like most youngsters 30 years ago, Frank was too ashamed, too scared, too uncomprehending ever to say a word...
...years at St. Thomas, "my meetings with him were not in his office but in his bed. When we moved there, there was always a lot of wrestling. He placed my head down between his legs. My feeling is that he was frustrated because I would not have oral sex with...