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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
‘
-pe... See more
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
‘
-pe... See more
Book
Walter J. Ong, Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.com