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Page 11
In the general racket I could distinguish many sounds , but few certain — perhaps sandhill cranes , a coyote ... Here on Jackson Lake it was strangely thrilling , because it was an 12 | authentic wilderness sound , one I was hardly.
In the general racket I could distinguish many sounds , but few certain — perhaps sandhill cranes , a coyote ... Here on Jackson Lake it was strangely thrilling , because it was an 12 | authentic wilderness sound , one I was hardly.
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The listening may be not only to sounds . We may , for instance , listen with even ... The silence itself becomes a presence , as if it had a sound of its own beyond the utmost reach of our hearing . I remember as a small child sitting ...
The listening may be not only to sounds . We may , for instance , listen with even ... The silence itself becomes a presence , as if it had a sound of its own beyond the utmost reach of our hearing . I remember as a small child sitting ...
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It belongs with the night sound of fog - horns on the bay , mournful , faintly yet pleasurably ominous ; the startlingly near sound of unseen bellbuoys , impersonal , insistent ; the measured roar and subsidence of the surf below the ...
It belongs with the night sound of fog - horns on the bay , mournful , faintly yet pleasurably ominous ; the startlingly near sound of unseen bellbuoys , impersonal , insistent ; the measured roar and subsidence of the surf below the ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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