Friday, September 30, 2016

♯7 Nodding with meaning, or just a noise

At the fifth visitation from Umi's first visitation, we decided to try one thing during the meeting with our father to confirm whether or not the noise he uttered was a nod or an irrelevant sound.  We went silent for nine minutes until the end of visitation.

Our father suddenly smiled, and kept uttering noise on his own, like "un, un," "eyain, un, enn" in front of us who were silent.

At the following visitation of Rika alone, she only said, "Good morning," wondering what would happen if there was no stimulation from the beginning, and watched his reaction in silence.  If he starts uttering noise that sounds like nodding when Rika is silent, that is a "noise" with no relevance or meaning.

The Detention House probably did not want anyone to recognize that our father was uttering "noise" without meaning, and warned Rika that visitation would end if she did not talk.

If we keep talking, however, a noise that sounds like nodding always overlaps at some point, like "un, en, in," and they could lie, claiming that "communication with his family is successful."

During subsequent visitations, we observed our father's appearance through talking to him and going silent.  We soon realized that there was no relevance or meaning in the noise he uttered though it sounded like nodding.

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