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People can train themselves to notice soft fascination anywhere, not only in natural settings.Their words
But I have a hunch (or possibly just a hope) that we can learn to notice our own soft fascinations anywhere.
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A few months ago I read an essay about silence by Amir Zadnemat in 3 Quarks Daily, called "The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence"*. The most interesting section was a riff on various kinds of silence, especially in spoken language, each communicating something very distinct despite the fact that objectively each silence sounds (or I guess doesn't sound) identical:
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Nothing matches.
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