Grasshopper’s Goodbye
Jean-Henri Fabre observes that a grasshopper will say goodbye to its fellow grasshoppers before hopping away. If it goes away without saying goodbye, such silence implies danger and will make all grasshoppers flee in silent panic.
Silence has a powerful voice. Press the start button and the microwave does nothing; the computer freezes; the sound system malfunctions in the middle of a movie; someone tells a bad joke; vivid dreams between the alarm clock’s snooze intervals; no one calls, not even telemarketers; a love letter sent, yet unreturned…
Alas, we the modern people can neither flee the noises nor the silence!
November 24th, 2005 at 11:10 am
Ah~ Silence is a power above all things ‘Golden’.
Perhaps Silence is black - because there is such a thing as “white noise’. Who has ever heard of ‘black noise‘ anyway…
November 30th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
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December 2nd, 2005 at 12:39 am
Be quiet, Francis!