Before long, the contending voices of pirate studies had become a "cacophony," according to one academic.
But the plenitude of contending voices, white and Indian, has a you-are-there effect, demonstrating positions that, with minor editing, could be at one with both the enlightenments and the bigotries of our day.
Years of professional experience are reduced to a scramble to be heard among other contending voices seeking to make a point, willing to opine with equal ease on the possibility of President's Rule in UP or the reason for 'brand Rahul' failing to make an impact.
Now, in the final telling, they contend, two voices of the author, who closes with a final word that puts an end to things: "Then cain said, Now you can kill me, No, I can't, the word of god cannot be taken back, you will die a natural death on the empty earth, and the carrion birds will devour your flesh, Yes, once you have devoured my spirit.
Initially, their tale is told by a young sailor named Ishmael -- a close relative of the sailor boys who had been in charge of Melville's previous books -- but the first-person narrative soon fractures into multiple voices contending with each other as if taking turns in a stage play.
It is also important that the Church argue its perspective from both a Christian worldview, and where possible from a rational worldview, given that the latter is the common language of multiple voices contending to be heard in the public square.
What is definitive, Hemingway contends, is "voice": what Twain himself called dialect.
Boom! Boom! Boom!" During the trial, the prosecutor contended the voice was Ms. Sheehan's, and suggested she had shot her husband because he had mocked her when he saw her holding a gun.
It meant a year of grueling Saturday rehearsals, learning work after work, then piecing them together in a full program, all the while contending with a voice caught in that croaking adolescent phase.
While trying to represent the world of her imagination, Wilson had to contend with the voices of respectability in her head.
So if the only voices he hears contending range from centrists who back his already compromised notions to right-wing forces who oppose any health care reform to insurance companies, hospitals and other health-care profiteers who seek to weaken any pressure on them to provide for the common good, of course the outcome will be a compromise toward the political Right.
