fear of silence

november 27, 2004.

"Not one sound fears the silence that ex-tinguishes it," Cage writes in his 'Lecture on Something' [Silence, p. 135] ... || ... that seems so obvious ... But on the other hand: do we know all sounds? How could we? So suppose ... suppose ... that, sometime, somewhere, 1 sound will come to linger on the treshold of sounding, because it is afraid, and very much so, for the silence that next may arrive to ex-tinct it ... Would it have the power to come into being, to sound at all? And if so, what then would a such sound sound like?

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