And lastly of Singer’s little group of disciples is Doctor Benedict Copeland, a black doctor who has devoted his life to leading his people out of ignorance but has failed, even with his own family from whom he is now mostly estranged. Mick Kelly is the daughter of the owners of Singer’s boarding house, a young girl whose life is circumscribed by the poverty of her circumstances, but who secretly longs to write music. Jake Blount is one such misfit – a drunk with Communist leanings who longs to meet others who share his politics. Lonely in his unsatisfactory marriage and childless, Biff watches the people who frequent the cafe and offers a kind of rough kindness to some of the misfits who happen along. He moves from the small apartment the two men had shared to a boarding house and takes all his meals at a local café, and gradually he attracts to him a small group of broken and lonely people, each of whom finds his silence allows them to talk openly to him in a way they can’t to other people.īiff Brannon owns the cafe along with his wife, Alice. So when Antonapolous is committed to an asylum, Singer is left profoundly alone. With all other people, Singer can only communicate by writing short messages on slips of paper. They are both deaf mutes and, while Singer can lip read, only Antonapolous understands his sign language. John Singer shares his life with his one friend, Spiros Antonapoulos.
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