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2 | title: | | ||
3 | Something about all music being performances of _4'33"_ | ||
4 | in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
5 | genre: verse | ||
6 | |||
7 | dedication: | | ||
8 | [Randall](TODO-xkcd-comic) | ||
9 | |||
10 | project: | ||
11 | title: Stark Raving | ||
12 | css: stark | ||
13 | order: 18 | ||
14 | next: | ||
15 | - title: Riptide of memory | ||
16 | link: riptide_memory | ||
17 | - title: About the author | ||
18 | link: about-the-author | ||
19 | prev: | ||
20 | - title: The Moon is drowning | ||
21 | link: moon-drowning | ||
22 | - title: The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
23 | link: sixteenth-chapel | ||
24 | ... | ||
25 | |||
26 | Silence lies underneath us all in the same way \ | ||
27 | the Nile has a river underneath ten times as large \ | ||
28 | (although this is an urban legend, apparently). | ||
29 | |||
30 | So underneath truth or legend, flowing by \ | ||
31 | the feel of their own silence, move the stars: \ | ||
32 | silence lies underneath us all in the same way. | ||
33 | |||
34 | John Cage, I think, understood this: the way \ | ||
35 | that, in a silent room, one still hears the nerves \ | ||
36 | (although this is an urban legend, apparently), | ||
37 | |||
38 | or the heart, which I find more easily \ | ||
39 | believable: there simply is no way that, by and large, \ | ||
40 | silence lies underneath us all in the same way. | ||
41 | |||
42 | There must be different silences, because we \ | ||
43 | have different songs to drown them out, different gods \ | ||
44 | (although these are urban legends, apparently). | ||
45 | |||
46 | But is not all sound one sound? You and I \ | ||
47 | are two faces to the same head, the same body. \ | ||
48 | Silence lies underneath us all in the same way--- \ | ||
49 | although this is an urban legend, apparently. | ||