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What is going to happen if, in the future, women will only be allowed to speak a hundred words per day? While the men will speak an unlimited number of words per day?<\/p>\n

Christina Dalcher imagined this situation in her first book\u00a0VOX: the words spoken by the women will be counted by a bracelet (nowadays it seems that we willingly wear a bracelet that counts the pulse, the number of the steps we take…)
\n“This is how things are now: We have allotments of one hundred words a day.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nAt midnight the bracelet resets and each morning starts the counting from zero.<\/p>\n

The consequences established by the government for the women who speak more than a hundred words varies from little shocks to the burning of the hand that wears the bracelet.<\/p>\n

“First word over a hundred, and you’ll get a slight shock. Nothing disabling, just a little jolt. A warning. You’ll perceive it, but it won’t actually hurt.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For every ten words after that, the charge augments by a tenth of a microcoulomb. Get to half a microcoulomb, and you’ll feel pain.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Reach a full microcoulomb and the pain becomes unbearable.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The angst for Jane, specialized in the study of aphasia and mother of three boys and a girl, is when her six years old girl comes back from school and proudly tells her mother:<\/p>\n

“Won prize! Lowest!”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The reason for winning the prize is:<\/p>\n

“I know what her school is up to. I know, because the counter on her thin wrist says the number 3.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nMy daughter has been silent all day.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And the little girl is delighted because the prize was ice cream:
\n“Ice cream for the girl with the lowest number on her counter.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kindle, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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