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208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 7, 1994
this is the story of how a book that should have been called the history of silence never came to be written. although common, failure is not easy to explain. there are remarkable people, capable of immense efforts, who manage to pull off what seems at first like the craziest of ventures. unfortunately, we don't fall into that category. just over two years ago, we embarked on research that was thorough as it was chaotic. the findings could not have been more disappointing. the book you have in your hands is not the dissertation we had envisioned but rather the chronicle of a renunciation. the original idea had clearly been far too ambitious. trying to discover what happens in those moments when nothing happens, trying to understand silence (and stillness, and darkness, and absence, and thought itself), even if only partially or subjectively, is so absurd an undertaking that even the most zealous enthusiasts (unfortunately, we are not in that category either) are doomed to fail.