
Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Difference Between Trains and Cars and Electrocal Generators?
The difference between a train and the hum of an electrocal generator is 'tremendous' When i listen to trains and their whistles from miles away, it's like like a whale letting out a sonar beep. The whole topography of the ounding landscape is revealed to me in the many layers of the echo that come towards me. And i know exactly where i am. Thats sens of plasther place. You know, listening is not about sound. Don't listen. If you ever find yourself listening for a sound that's diagnostically he controlled impairament, right? Simply listen to the place.
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