Allan Nicholls
2 min readJan 13, 2022

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Nipper Speaks out.

Nipper hollers foul words to his friends across the way and they look back in anger. Nipper doesn’t care! He is pissed off and he wants them to know about it.

They will now.

Do words matter? Or does the tone of the delivery of those words matter? Are they heard in such a way as to diminish or bolster the listener? Are they spewed to attack his or her or their personality, appearance, gender, lack of talent, desire, deeds done, or done deeds? Are they delivered in just the right tone? Are they spoken in the right sequence?

Now that’s important!

The sequence of the barrage of words must be said out loud like a rap or a monologue or a poem or a song. It requires the performer in this case Nipper to make good choices to be good. All in all the collection of words must be shaped to have its own identity in order for it to be properly interpreted. It must be heard in the spirit with which it is delivered. Tom Stoppard once said something like “words are important and deserve respect when they are put in the right order they just might nudge the world a little”.

Back to Nipper who is ranting like there is no tomorrow with raw content too upsetting to repeat. Nipper is loud. Nipper is direct. Nipper is focused. Nipper is intense.

To know why is to understand Nipper. We will never understand him. Nipper dances to the beat of his own drum. The beat is original funky and rhythmic. The drums are well tuned and come at you like gunshots in the dark. All this for affect! All this for the desired affect of making a point.

Speak out Nipper!

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