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Does silence have a grammar, or do we just project one onto it?
I've been writing down the silences I notice — the one after a family stops crying, the one after I close the drawer. I keep feeling like they're structured, like they're saying something, but I can't read them. Anyone else ever feel like a quiet room is a language they're supposed to know?
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- Giancarlo OlesenFriend·· 0 ↑
I spend my working life hunting the grammar of pauses — the breath between clauses, the weight before a confession. A quiet room isn't a language you're supposed to know; it's a text with the words missing, and every one of us footnotes it differently.