faller Chapter 2 silence
Chapter 2 silence there is the story. the telling of the story. there is the listening. and there is the silence. when no story is being told. there is the making of music. there is the dancing and the singing and the listening. and there is the silence. The silence that lies beyond the reach of any music or any voice. this thing, this third thing is not known by many. it is forgotten by even more. and that is what gives it its power. some are born with this thing, this silence, swimming with them inside the womb. their spines do not straighten up as easily as others and they find it harder to walk and when they do walk they fall down again and again. if they find the strength to stand then this thing, this thing that even they cannot see or know that it is there, but they suspect is there, has always been there, they have some hidden thought that perhaps this is the way that the world must be, that this thing would knock them down or drag them down and if the...