At 16:27 8/5/01, Dave Bellamy wrote:
John/Gregg,
Does that mean that you can go there and suffer from "Corn Deafness"?
Depends on how you define "deafness." I live inside city limits. In spite
of its small size, it has some background noise attributable to any
city. Don't know what your experience is with being somewhere that is
truly quiet; completely absent of our mechanized lives. Our auditory sense
also serves as a warning system for danger. Even low background noise
produces a level of alertness we cannot suppress. IMO we are hard-wired
that way.
In the venues that are absent of this, and I need not travel far to reach
them, if you are very still, you will hear things that cannot be heard in
most of our everyday lives. There is a phase in German about listening to
the flowers grow. IIRC, it is related to the tranquility of these
locations that finally allows the warning system to fully rest and the mind
can focus completely on deep introspection. At one step further, if it is
quiet enough, such as in a deep cavern, there is a complete and utter
absence of auitory stimulation, and that in itself becomes deafening.
The question I've had, and it's one I've never been able to solve, is how
to visually convey this to others with a photograph if they have never
experienced it? A photograph relies on viewer life experiences to evoke
response from the other senses and help convey the message fully.
-- John
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