![]() ![]() I love being alone, I love being silent, and I love certain kinds of landscape, very austere, empty. ![]() It is in Galloway, far away from anyone else. Around the millennium year I moved north and started looking for the house I now have. I have lived in southwest Scotland, in London and in Oxford in the past, which were too noisy for me. Is A Book of Silence autobiographical?īits of it are autobiographical, but it’s also based upon the research I did into the concept of silence and its cultural history. This is mostly because there are very few places, except perhaps outer space, where there is actual, physical silence. What I’m interested in is the reduction in the amount of man-made noise – and particularly speech. In the dictionary, silence can be defined in two separate ways, as either an absence of language or an absence of all noise. But actually it’s a bit more complicated than that. Well on one level, it’s very simple – silence is just an absence of noise. How do you understand the term ‘silence’? Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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