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Glennie: There’s a kind of unspoken understanding that comes from a shared experience of deafness, one that goes beyond language or conventional musical cues.

Sourness, she continued, is “a bizarro cue, a signal reliable neither for toxicity nor for nutrition.”

We imagine ourselves influencing the story, but mostly we are participating in a prearranged rhythm, following cues we barely notice.

At one point, Musk cued Cavanaugh with an awkward joke about how the work he’d found being done at the United States Institute of Peace was actually “the opposite of the title.”

Gunn’s writing humanized every single character – even Vigilante, a psycho unable to comprehend simple human cues like sarcasm, but who nearly collapses into tears when he realizes he may have failed his friend and hero.