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2title: Something
3subtitle: 'about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing'
4genre: verse
5
6id: music-433
7toc: "Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing"
8
9dedication: '[Randall](https://xkcd.com/1199/)'
10
11project:
12 title: Stark Raving
13 class: stark
14 order: 18
15 next:
16 - title: Riptide of memory
17 link: riptide_memory
18 - title: About the author
19 link: about-the-author
20 prev:
21 - title: The Moon is drowning
22 link: moon-drowning
23 - title: The Sixteenth Chapel
24 link: sixteenth-chapel
25...
26
27| Silence lies underneath us all in the same way
28| [the Nile has a river underneath ten times as large][nile]
29| (although this is an urban legend, apparently).
30
31| So underneath [truth][] or legend, flowing by
32| the feel of their own [silence][], move the stars:
33| silence lies underneath us all in the same way.
34
35| [John Cage][433], I think, understood this: the way
36| that, in a silent room, one still hears the nerves
37| (although this is an urban legend, apparently),
38
39| or the heart, which I find more easily
40| believable: there simply is no way that, by and large,
41| silence lies underneath us all in the same way.
42
43| There must be different silences, because we
44| have different [songs][] to drown them out, different gods
45| (although these are urban legends, apparently).
46
47| But is not all [sound one sound][]? You and I
48| are two faces to the same head, the same body.
49| Silence lies underneath us all in the same way---
50| although this is an urban legend, apparently.
51
52[433]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zY7UK-6aaNA#t=39
53[truth]: phone.html
54[silence]: nothing-is-ever-over.html
55[songs]: swansong.html
56[sound one sound]: swansong-alt.html
57[nile]: http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/resonance_80307.htm "Personals"