All sensation

takes place in time, but sound has a special relationship to time unlike

that of the other

fi

elds that register in human sensation. Sound exists

only when it is going out of existence. It is not simply perishable but

essentially evanescent, and it is sensed as evanescent. When I pro-

nounce the word

‘

permanence

’

, by the time I get to the

‘

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