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30 <h1 class="subtitle">about all music being performances of <em>4′33″</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing</h1>
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41 <p><span class="line">Silence lies underneath us all in the same way</span><span class="line"><a href="http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/resonance_80307.htm" title="Personals">the Nile has a river underneath ten times as large</a></span><span class="line">(although this is an urban legend, apparently).</span></p>
42 <p><span class="line">So underneath <a href="phone.html">truth</a> or legend, flowing by</span><span class="line">the feel of their own <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">silence</a>, move the stars:</span><span class="line">silence lies underneath us all in the same way.</span></p>
43 <p><span class="line"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=zY7UK-6aaNA#t=39">John Cage</a>, I think, understood this: the way</span><span class="line">that, in a silent room, one still hears the nerves</span><span class="line">(although this is an urban legend, apparently),</span></p>
44 <p><span class="line">or the heart, which I find more easily</span><span class="line">believable: there simply is no way that, by and large,</span><span class="line">silence lies underneath us all in the same way.</span></p>
45 <p><span class="line">There must be different silences, because we</span><span class="line">have different <a href="swansong.html">songs</a> to drown them out, different gods</span><span class="line">(although these are urban legends, apparently).</span></p>
46 <p><span class="line">But is not all <a href="swansong-alt.html">sound one sound</a>? You and I</span><span class="line">are two faces to the same head, the same body.</span><span class="line">Silence lies underneath us all in the same way—</span><span class="line">although this is an urban legend, apparently.</span></p>
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