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Dr. Dischord (the A. in his name stands for “As Loud As Possible”) creates all terrible sounds in the world and sells them as medicine to cure people of a lack of sound, which is a fake illness. He lives and works in a caravan trailer parked outside of the Valley of Sound. He has huge ears and dresses in a lab coat and a stethoscope. He loves the rise of city living and the increase of noise in the cities, as it means that business has been great—according to him, people love city noises like screeches, honks, and gurgling drains. He’s partially responsible for the silence in the Valley of Sound, as he “cured” everyone in the valley as people turned more and more to loud city living and stopped appreciating beautiful sounds. He has an assistant, the DYNNE, whom he found as an orphan and brought up himself.
Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord Quotes in The Phantom Tollbooth
The The Phantom Tollbooth quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord or refer to Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12. The Silent Valley
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“It doesn’t make me happy to hold back the sounds,” she began softly, “for if we listen to them carefully they can sometimes tell us things far better than words.”
“But if that is so,” asked Milo—and he had no doubt that it was—“shouldn’t you release them?”
“NEVER!” she cried. “They just use them to make horrible noises which are ugly to see and worse to hear. I leave all that to Dr. Dischord and that awful, awful DYNNE.”
“But some noises are good sounds, aren’t they?” he insisted.
“That may be true,” she replied stubbornly, “but if they won’t make the sounds that I like, they won’t make any.”
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Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord Quotes in The Phantom Tollbooth
The The Phantom Tollbooth quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord or refer to Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12. The Silent Valley
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“It doesn’t make me happy to hold back the sounds,” she began softly, “for if we listen to them carefully they can sometimes tell us things far better than words.”
“But if that is so,” asked Milo—and he had no doubt that it was—“shouldn’t you release them?”
“NEVER!” she cried. “They just use them to make horrible noises which are ugly to see and worse to hear. I leave all that to Dr. Dischord and that awful, awful DYNNE.”
“But some noises are good sounds, aren’t they?” he insisted.
“That may be true,” she replied stubbornly, “but if they won’t make the sounds that I like, they won’t make any.”
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