Sound

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).

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.

»sound system«

tuner, amp, turntable, cdplayer, tapedeck, speakers.

or:

a well-designed (by chance or purpose) pattern of events, actions, impulses, equations, whathaveyou

In the order of emotional content, I find sound more intense than either sight or touch. It seems to be where man has devoted so much creative effort to inspire others.

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.

»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.

Some years ago, I was invited to a party in Cologne by two American girls. Most of the guests were Americans, so we talked English all the time.
I was introduced to a boy called Steve, and I said to him, »You sound rather British, Steve.« His reply was, »That's because I am rather British.«

There is no such thing for us as silence. The body is a medium for propagating the waves generated by the functioning of the neural and circulatory systems. There is music already woven in the bones.

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'.