April 26, 2007
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A Lonely Distant Shout
This from Johan Huizinga (pronounced HOY-zeen-guh)
in The Autumn of the Middle Ages p.4Just as the contrast
between the summer and winter
was stronger then than in our present lives,
so was the difference
between light and dark,
quiet and noise.
The modern city hardly knows
pure darkness
or true silence anymore,
nor does it know
the effect of a single small light
or that of a lonely distant shout.
