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---
title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing
genre: verse
dedication: '[Randall](https://xkcd.com/1199/)'
project:
title: Stark Raving
css: 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 \
(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
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