<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <title>Something | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="img/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/common.css"> <script src="./js/lozenge.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="./js/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/verse.css"> <script src="./js/verse.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/stark.css"> <script src="./js/stark.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> </head> <body> <article id="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Something</h1> <h1 class="subtitle">about all music being performances of <em>4′33″</em> in places where other bands happen to be playing</h1> <!-- dedication --> <div class="dedication"><a href="https://xkcd.com/1199/">Randall</a></div> </header> <section class="content verse"><p>Silence lies underneath us all in the same way<br /><a href="http://members.authorsguild.net/svobodni/resonance_80307.htm" title="Personals">the Nile has a river underneath ten times as large</a><br />(although this is an urban legend, apparently).</p> <p>So underneath <a href="phone.html">truth</a> or legend, flowing by<br />the feel of their own <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">silence</a>, move the stars:<br />silence lies underneath us all in the same way.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zY7UK-6aaNA#t=39">John Cage</a>, I think, understood this: the way<br />that, in a silent room, one still hears the nerves<br />(although this is an urban legend, apparently),</p> <p>or the heart, which I find more easily<br />believable: there simply is no way that, by and large,<br />silence lies underneath us all in the same way.</p> <p>There must be different silences, because we<br />have different <a href="swansong.html">songs</a> to drown them out, different gods<br />(although these are urban legends, apparently).</p> <p>But is not all <a href="swansong-alt.html">sound one sound</a>? You and I<br />are two faces to the same head, the same body.<br />Silence lies underneath us all in the same way—<br />although this is an urban legend, apparently.</p></section> </article> <nav> <a class="prevlink" href="moon-drowning.html" title="Next article in Stark Raving"> The Moon is drowning </a> <a class="prevlink" href="sixteenth-chapel.html" title="Next article in Stark Raving"> The Sixteenth Chapel </a> <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> <a class="nextlink" href="riptide_memory.html" title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> Riptide of memory </a> <a class="nextlink" href="about-the-author.html" title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> About the author </a> </nav> </body> </html>