a phobia of the voice with no body
Avril has some auditory thing about broadcast sound and gets the howling fantods from any voice that does not exit a living corporeal head
Context
The apparatus of remote contact rendered as horror: Avril cannot bear a voice that arrives without a body attached, so that the whole medium of the disembodied broadcast, a voice reaching her across distance with no head behind it, gives her the howling fantods. Mario keeps the tuner almost inaudible out of unspoken consideration, which means the one channel he loves has to be smuggled, near-silent, past a mother for whom mediated speech is a thing to dread. Landed here on the channel-pathology; the family phobia-system is family-hamlet's. [sweep · shared-ground family-hamlet]