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+title: Something
+subtitle: 'about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing'
+genre: verse
+
+id: music-433
+toc: "Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing"
+
+dedication: '[Randall](https://xkcd.com/1199/)'
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    class: stark
+    order: 18
+    next:
+    - title: Riptide of memory
+      link: riptide_memory
+    - title: About the author
+      link: about-the-author
+    prev:
+    - title: The Moon is drowning
+      link: moon-drowning
+    - title: The Sixteenth Chapel
+      link: sixteenth-chapel
+...
+
+| Silence lies underneath us all in the same way
+| [the Nile has a river underneath ten times as large][nile]
+| (although this is an urban legend, apparently).
+
+| So underneath [truth][] or legend, flowing by
+| the feel of their own [silence][], move the stars:
+| silence lies underneath us all in the same way.
+
+| [John Cage][433], I think, understood this: the way
+| that, in a silent room, one still hears the nerves
+| (although this is an urban legend, apparently),
+
+| or the heart, which I find more easily
+| believable: there simply is no way that, by and large,
+| silence lies underneath us all in the same way.
+
+| There must be different silences, because we
+| have different [songs][] to drown them out, different gods
+| (although these are urban legends, apparently).
+
+| But is not all [sound one sound][]?  You and I
+| are two faces to the same head, the same body.
+| Silence lies underneath us all in the same way---
+| although this is an urban legend, apparently.
+
+[433]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zY7UK-6aaNA#t=39
+[truth]: phone.html
+[silence]: nothing-is-ever-over.html
+[songs]: swansong.html
+[sound one sound]: swansong-alt.html
+[nile]: http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/resonance_80307.htm "Personals"