¶ Silence
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Silence:
"Silence is the untuned. Silence takes the electromagnetic place of space. Space is a sort of tactile error. . . the frozen thing.
"With awareness and consciousness you already are thinking; but the point is that you didn’t start out with the notion of doing some thinking; it wasn’t your fault that you started to be conscious of something.
“Euler has the visual inventory. Aural sensing has no shape. Our visual sense verifies our tactile sense of shape. Smelling and sound have no shape. Smelling has less shape than sound. Sound has a little shape in reflecting bouncings of electromagnetic wave phenomena. Visually, when we don’t see something, we call it space. But hearing is like smelling, when it is not tuned-in, it is silent. I’ve been saying tuned-out, but what I’ve meant all along is silence.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA; 3200 Idaho, Wash.DC; 30 Sep’76
