I came across this idea in this book, 'The Indian Clerk' by David Leavitt. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of the great British mathematician G.H Hardy during the period 1910 - 1920, a period which witnessed his unexpected association with Srinivasa Ramanujan and the First World War. The book was a great read and I'd highly recommend it.
Anyway, one very interesting idea that I came across in the book was this : there are infinite kinds of silences. This may sound rather absurd...infinite kinds of silences! But it stops being absurd as soon as we look at silence, not something as by itself, rather as the absence of sound; the negation of sound. So you could think of one kind of silence being the absence of human voice, and another kind being the absence of your favorite melody.
Delightful ain't it?
Anyway, one very interesting idea that I came across in the book was this : there are infinite kinds of silences. This may sound rather absurd...infinite kinds of silences! But it stops being absurd as soon as we look at silence, not something as by itself, rather as the absence of sound; the negation of sound. So you could think of one kind of silence being the absence of human voice, and another kind being the absence of your favorite melody.
Delightful ain't it?
5 comments:
Bhai mere (literally eh?),
Good to see you pondering the existentialist aspects of life for the world to see. Take care now!
shiva_arch
PS: The proofer in me says you need to add the missing "n" to the blog title
Bhai! Great to heat from you. Well I have been unfortunately pondering over the existentialist aspects of life for quite some time now...have finally decided to become voluble about it! I guess its my way of giving myself importance. (Oh the human need for vanity!)
Is shiva_arch a gmail id? If you see this please send me an email which you check frequently.
And thanks for the spell check!
you might be interested in another book on ramajunajan and hardy, 'man who knew infinity', a biography of the great ramanujan, quite interesting... Also, one of the best fictionalized renderation of the ramanujan story i have seen is in boston, where the underground theatre does a play on this where the goddess of namakkal is a prominent character and care-taker of ramanujan!
observation about silence is delightful, infact the universe is extremely silent amid the noise...about many questions!
nice to see this blog. Great going!
Cool... very interesting... some other kinds of silence could include silence of thoughts, of action or sound etc...
deep.....very deep....
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