Add the loping rhythms, and there are times when a listener wonders if he has enough energy for his own passions.

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The listener needs a generous ear when sifting through almost thirty albums (plus an even greater number of live recordings and compilations) made by almost fifty band members, but in his own, grudging way Smith is the most generous man in northern England.

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When the sound-effects man sank a knife into a cabbage the listener saw an axe crunching into the victim's head.

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She's repeatedly interrupted by a gong-like bell when it's deemed by the unseen listener that she's not been quite truthful.

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Iacobani explained that when one tells a purposeful story in the room, face to face, they evoke the mirror neuron system of their listener to feel what they are feeling in their tell and thus mirror the same intentions.

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