"Isn't it lovely?" she sighed, "It's my favorite program- fifteen minutes of silence- and after that theres a half hour of quiet and then an interlude of lull. Why did you know there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, nobody pays attention to them these days." -Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth, p.151This book is a favorite of mine, classic. I never get tired of picking it up and re-reading it. This quote goes on to talk about the loveliest types of silence.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
On Silence
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I've never read this book (although my girls have), but this sounds right up my alley. I love some silence!
It's a fun book. It is one of the only one K likes me to read a loud anymore.
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