Friday, January 14, 2011

the other side of silence

[George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871-2 / 1874]

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.  As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

[This single piece of text, nearly on its own, woke me up as an English major more than anything else i've ever read.  I put it as the opening quote of anomaly, and it remains one of my favorites.  You go, girl.]

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