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mcmikedermott (46 words)
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It reminds me a beautiful book "iRead", The seventh son by Orson Scott Card. The boy has a gift for creating, but there is something (hard to define) against him, that they call the Unmaker.
Look, I'm talking about books!
"When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold."
- Wislawa Szymborska, 'The Three Oddest Words', translated by S. Baranczak & C. Cavanagh.
"'There are two types of silence,' said Kasper, 'or at least that's how it has sounded to me. There is the high silence, the silence behind prayer. The silence when one is close to the Divine. The silence that is the dense, unborn presence of all sounds. And then there is the other silence. Hopelessly far from God. And from other people. The silence of absence. The silence of loneliness.'
He felt the young man's openness. There was contact. Interference. They were close to each other.
'I know them,' said Franz Fieber. 'The two kinds of silence. I know them both.'
'Those two people I sat across from, they were acoustically dead,' said Kasper. 'Something had gone out of them.'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.