But does he need the heartache of another man's baby, another wife? Neither does. a woman he really loves, a real family again. And the very sight of her suddenly makes him want more in his life. The question was: did he mean it? He did.īill Thigpen and Adrian Townshed collided in a supermarket. In as enviable life they'd worked hard for-the American Dream. His life is in perfect balance, he thinks.Īdrian Townshed thought she had everything: a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. Top-of-the-chart ratings, good-natured casual affairs, and special vacations with his two young sons. Now, nine years later, living alone in Hollywood, even without his wife and kids, his life and success are still reasonably sweet. Schaller, an interpreter for the deaf.Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse. Yet - and this thinking generates poetry - we are driven to language language is our escape from the prison of the self.īut what happens if we are born and grow up uneducated and unable to hear or to speak? This is the question that "A Man Without Words" attempts to answer. Through it, we know that we are unknowable and isolated individuals. But language, connecting us to ourselves and to every human being, also exiles us. And language, as it draws us to the mystery of the unknown, becomes our inner life. Naming things, we name and become ourselves.
Like Adam, we make connections and name things. The word seeps into our minds during infancy. Describing a deaf man and his efforts to communicate, Susan Schaller has written a powerful and evocative meditation on language.
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