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Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord
The DYNNE is Dr. Dischord’s assistant. He’s a cloud of blue smog with yellow eyes who lives much of the time in bottles, but can emerge from the bottle and exist as a cloud of smog as well. The DYNNE is very sensitive and emotional; horrible sounds make him weep with happiness and he screams and runs at even the mention of beautiful sounds. His job is to go out each day and collect terrible sounds for Dr. Dischord to use in his medicines.
The DYNNE Quotes in The Phantom Tollbooth
The The Phantom Tollbooth quotes below are all either spoken by The DYNNE or refer to The DYNNE. 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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The DYNNE Quotes in The Phantom Tollbooth
The The Phantom Tollbooth quotes below are all either spoken by The DYNNE or refer to The DYNNE. 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:
).
Chapter 12. The Silent Valley
Quotes
“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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