State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 10025 Krin Gabbard Associate Professor Comparative Literature 212 749-1631 29-Jun-1995 09:37am EDT FROM: KGABBARD TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: Re: The Human Voice Kristine Butler asks about films in which the human voice is drowned out by other sounds. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but isn't something like this in the climax of Fellini's _La Dolce Vita_? An innocent woman is trying to tell the jaded Marcello some piece of wisdom, but he can't hear her because of the sound of, I think, rushing water. I believe we call this a metaphor. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]