Retrospective examines five central questions related to silence in language and migration, highlighting implications for understanding suppressed civilizations.
Those of you who missed one episode, or most of them, will here find the retrospective of the five questions with their illustrations and images, and the power of those five together. These questions had been asked by some chap who contacted us with them, asking for five answers, for him then to write, compose, produce a few enticing ads for( the book they cover, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SILENCE: LANGUAGE, MIGRATION, AND THE SURVIVAL OF SUPPRESSED CIVILIZATIONS, by Mohammad Merajul ISLAM (Author), Jacques COULARDEAU (Author) Format: Kindle Edition, ASIN: B0GY92ZTK1, Éditions La Dondaine, April 27, 2026). The chap had written, black on white in an email, that it was to be free for us, and it might even bring in some royalties. But, divine surprise, when we received our five answers, he announced that any add will have a cost for us. Be cautious and aware that the field of publishing is full of caimans who want us to believe they are kittens, and they cry sad tears, though they are only crocodile tears. We get about three such contacts every day. No object, at times a fake object, is common. Most of the mails are about three lines, evasive, in one word, dishonest. With a catalogue that counts more than thirty books over the last ten years, these proposals always speak of "your book" with no title and in the singular. 1% at the most may be more specific. I check regularly. They did not buy the books. So how can they even, some of them, a few of them, enter a ten-line evocation of the book, and this evocation is a ghost? How can they nourish this ghost if they do not access the book, one particular book? The only honest ones tell you right away that they are agents. So, enjoy the retrospective. Each episode contains first my own reaction to the concerned question, and then the common answer from the two authors of the book. Two ways of looking at things, two ways at times contradictory, but I guess our back is wide enough to take a flogging from the slave-mastering critics. But do not miss the opportunity to read the book. I am sure you would like it if you read it.
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COULARDEAU et al. (2026) studied this question.
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