[lit-ideas] Re: Silence
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 16:10:10 -0700
David Ritchie wrote
One cannot arrest quiet, or cause it to speed on by; one can but
interrupt it.
Pages about silence, read quietly, like John Cage's demonstration
might prove diverting.
The rest, unless it is in outer space, is not likely to be silence.
And yet we hold fast to the term and think we have heard what it means.
One of my good friends, who is even older than I am, has been blind
since he was seventeen. He says he asked himself, after he'd been blind
for some years, whether he'd rather be blind or deaf. To him, the answer
was obvious: he'd far rather be blind, for in being deaf one would lose
the intimacy which only human voices can express.
Robert Paul
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