Sound

This is the opposite of ill and at the same time the opposite of silence. Maybe it is also the opposite of something else, but I do not know.

Strange that some of the most glorious sounds in the world should have come from a man – Beethoven – who in the end could hear no sound (except, perhaps, the awful cacophony of tinnitus).

»That is exactly what I object to, Edmonia. If it did not sound harsh, I should say that I do not consider you a proper example for the young.«
This appeared to amuse her, which was the last thing he had anticipated. Her deep, thick laugh gushed out.
»Oh, they aren´t waiting for an example, « she replied.

Explorers for hundreds of years hoped they would discover the Northwest Passage – an all-water route leading from Europe to the Far East through the northern part of the Americas. Think how awkward that would be – an ocean channel more than 3,000 miles long, snaking across the U.S. and/or Canada, making North Dakota and Saskatchewan into ports. Just so a bunch of spice merchants would have it easy!

They thought they'd found the Northwest Passage when they sailed into Puget Sound.

They say that in space you can't hear the sound of yourself screaming. Another of the Almighty's crafty wheezes, no doubt. The clerk to the Court of the Last Judgement will never have to say, 'Silence, please'.

You can't escape the sound of music anywhere these days. People can't seem to get on without their background noise.

Anybody remember silence?

Why does the blaster make no sound? It should blast my writing! It should make »zapp« and »zupp« and other great sounds, so that I can imagine my words would really get blastet out to the universe.

For everything there is a season. But there is the dream of a season past all seasons. In such a dream the wild-grape cluster, high-hung, exposed in the gold light, unripening, ripens.
Stained, the lip with wetness gleams. I see your lip, undrying, gleam in the bright wind.

I cannot hear the sound of that wind.