Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth? : On John Cage, Muzak, Noise, Torture, and More
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2015-12-15
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"Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?", Literary Hub, accessed by December 15, 2015, https://lithub.com/silence-tool-weapon-gift-myth/
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Abstract
At every moment we are bombarded by sound waves, light waves, gamma rays, x-rays, the solar wind. All around, through, and even inside of us is restless movement: the brain muses, nerve cells flare, hair grows, food becomes flesh, not to mention all that is going on at the subatomic level. Our senses can only register a narrow band of all this movement, but even what we can sense is far too much for us. To think, to function in the world, to survive, we have to ignore most of what we can see and hear. We need silence.