First a brief story in quotes: “I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.” [Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out] "So, the sounds emerging from us are ultimately a manifestation in our physical experience of the thoughts we are having. These thoughts are coded through symbols by way of our past experiences and memories. That coding is produced from something, for how else do we translate language into symbols? Therein lies the truth: we are the coding." [Jarrod Byrne Mayer, The Architecture of Sound and the Alchemy of Transcendence] "If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you." [Florence Scovel Shinn, The Complete Works of Florence Scovel Shinn] “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” [Stephen Richards] First off, if you want to read a story of sound and/or silence, I cannot say enough about J...