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Mute
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“
It was all real and blazing with detail.
But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.
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― A Certain Slant of Light
― A Certain Slant of Light
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Note that the word "mute" is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing it to be seen hiding. In cigarette-smoke-soaked Copenhagen, under a wide thin sorrowful sky, as swans drift down the water, I am looking a long time into the muteness of my brother. It resists me.
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― Nox
― Nox
