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Random Acts of Silence
Upon us all is silence pressed.
Countless thoughts go unexpressed,
Caused not by a nature meek,
Nor from loss words to speak,
But from vast expanse of thought
Outside the bounds of words we're taught,
By those who speak in silence.
 
Lost Souls dwelling in the quiet,
While thoughts within would churn and riot,
Deaf ears keen to cries of those
Who in this darkened void repose.
Lacking sight and lacking sound,
In between us all abounds
This all-consuming silence.
 
But in this empty, noiseless place
Trapped by time and trapped by space,
There is within the quiet's scope
A faint and fragile glimmered hope,
That one single voice may lift
And bequeath to all the gift
Of sound within the silence.

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"I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin - different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business." - Bernard Storehouse

Below are links to places that might be of  interest whether they be on my site or someone else's. Ignore them if you want, but consider first what you might be missing if you do...
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"FOR MY own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

This track, bearing the name of the poem A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, is inspired by a passage in MARGINALIA, namely an article for Graham's Magazine in March, 1846.
The introduction, spoken by the grandiose Orson Wells, was not included on the original 1976 EP but specially made for the new mix and recording on CD in 1987

This site updated whenever I get around to it

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