At this time of night, the tick of the clock synchronises itself with my heartbeat. The hum of the PC is the sound of its wires vibrating, of its strummed strings serenading the surfer. Play me a tune and I’ll play you a game. Sing me a song and I’ll sink you a ship. If you hold the mouse up to your ear you can hear the sea…
There are sounds on the edge of sound, voices that even the dogs can’t hear. There are whispers and murmurs, angels’ lullabies and devils’ laments. There are people laughing more quietly than the sound of a cloud forming. Somewhere a child is crying, but the sound is drowned by the “whoosh” of a single raindrop heading earthwards.
There is too much noise.
I want stillness to seduce me slowly and silently. I want the sibilant “s” of white noise to reduce everything to nothing. I want the batteries to run down, the tyres to deflate, the opera to end and the horse, with an almighty cacophony of hooves and mane, to pass the finishing post. My colour will drain, my body ice over and my eyes grow cloudy, until morning – sweet morning! – when the sun rises and I am born again.
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Beautiful.
What a glorious way to start my morning. Gorgeous imagery.
This is the most amazingest blog post I’ve ever read.
You were on the same drugs as me last night, weren’t you?
Thanks for the compliments, always lovely to receive (even if I know that fifty other people are thinking “pretentious arse”!).
Vaughan – I glanced at this earlier today when you left your comment (busy day) but now I’ve looked at it properly it seems that we were on a very similar vibe indeed. Again.
Oh, the second half of that comment is clumsy, in retrospect.
“I glanced at this” means “I assumed that you were referring to something on your site, so I surfed on over and glanced at it”.
I find that when it gets that quiet I can’t sleep. I need city sounds. I got my best sleep living by a main road. When in the countryside crickets keep me awake. I need that ambient noise.
Having said that, I once used a Steve Albini Shellac tape to send me to sleep, so maybe it’s just me.
i keep reading this post; it’s very soothing.