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noise

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folklore

rain

weather

weather lore

water

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steel

outer space

silence

space

voice

whale

blue whale

hearing

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phobia

shrimp

glass

hipster

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farting

Japan

tuba

weapon

WWII

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Star Wars

is denotative of distance and temporality in a way that sight is not. Rather than an immediate inner illumination that emanates outward in sight, hearing proceeds sequentially from the external to the internal. It is intimate without being immediate.

David Chidester summarizes the most important implication of ancient Greek science for the act of hearing: 'There was no presence, no connection, no continuous bond between the subject and the object of [auditory] perception. Sound thus denotes distance and temporality in a way that sight does not. Rather than an inner illumination that emanates outward, hearing proceeds from the external to the internal. . . . Sound is intimate without being immediate.

Sound is like water: it gets into things.

is something we cannot describe, but we cannot forget it either.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

is a sensory field that totally resists a holding action, resists stabilization.

Ong argues that sound is evanescent, fleeting and temporary, so cannot be fixed in time; 'all sensation takes place in time, but no other sensory field totally resists a holding action, stabilization, in quite this way' (Ong 1982:32).

is contrasted with vision in that sound's ephemeral invisibility obstructs critical engagement, while the apparent stability of the image invites criticism.

Sound's ephemeral invisibility obstructs critical engagement, while the apparent stability of the image invites criticism. Vision, by its very nature assumes a distance from the object, which it receives in its monumentality. Seeing always happens in a meta-position, away from the seen, however close. And this distance enables a detachment and objectivity that presents itself as truth. Seeing is believing. (xi-xii)

is the sense most assaulted in the modern age --- Our mechanical and sanitary age grants mercy to our sense of smell and compensates by assailing our sense of hearing.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

is different from other sounds only to the extent that it is sped up or slowed down. All sound sounds alike; every bellow ends as a whistle; a distended whistling blasts like a bellow.

Every bellow ends as a whistle. A distended whistling blasts like a bellow. To the extent that they speed up or slow down, all sounds sound alike.

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