Some Curious Facts About Silence

  Silence is, in itself, majestic and mysterious, especially in societies like ours, where there’s always noise. Although it’s defined as an ‘absence’ of sound or communication, the truth is that it’s a phenomenon that often says a great deal more than any kind of noise can. For instance, music, which is the poem of sound, needs silence to mark its rhythms and times. Ordinary communication also requires pauses so that we can assimilate messages. Also, because it would be completely unbearable if the person we were talking to didn’t shut up. Silence can often be full of intimacy. On…