"It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation." -- John Cage
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:25:19 +1000, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thanks, Doug. Back to Millicent - perhaps the silence keeps coming out of
>the dishes once they’ve had the silent treatment.
>Bill
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>On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 12:44 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>> Hey Jill, good to see you here again.
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>> Bill, I feel ours is ‘quiet,’ but not sure Id say ‘silent.’ Still there
>> you are \, away, & with this thing asking these questions. Goo on ya.
>>
>> Doug
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>> > On Aug 8, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> > All good questions Bill. In the poem and post-poem.
>> > The sounds of silence. Maybe that could be a poem, or a song (OK, I'll
>> > see myself out).
>> > Best,Jill
>> > ________________________
>> > Jill Jones
>> > www.jilljones.comau
>> >
>> > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
>> > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
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>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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>> > Sent:Wed, 8 Aug 2018 21:58:42 +1000
>> > Subject:Re: Silence Plus
>> >
>> > Thanks, Sheila, Millicent, Patrick. Is silence neutral, I wonder,
>> > capable
>> > of being added to, or is it negative - no noise- possessing a
>> > subtractable
>> > or subtracted quality? If neutral, every sound is silence plus it.
>> > And how
>> > does silence sound and from whence does it pour? Perhaps we should
>> > let
>> > Basho’s haiku have the last word, even with its silent 17th
>> > syllable:
>> > The temple bell stops -
>> > but the sound keeps coming
>> > Out of the flowers
>> >
>> > Billo
>> >
>> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 8:50 pm, Patrick McManus <
>> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> cheers Bill thanks a smile -posh upmarket silence!! if I had one I
>> > would
>> >> have it play Vivaldi! what other choices
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 07/08/2018 23:33, Bill Wootton wrote:
>> >>> Silence plus
>> >>> Bosch dishwasher model
>> >>> in Lyon apartment
>> >>> That’d be some sort of super silence,
>> >>> you’d imagine
>> >>> Not your common quiet
>> >>>
>> >>> But if anything is added
>> >>> to silence
>> >>> would that be something
>> >>> about which a manufacturer
>> >>> ought boast?
>> >>>
>> >>> bw
>> >>>
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>> Shakespeare
>> Drag yr mouldy old bones
>> Up these stairs & tell me
>> What you died of,
>> I think
>> I’ve got it
>> Too.
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