Tag: remanence
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It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal
‘Listening is the dark matter of a conversation.’ I love that quote; it’s from an essay by the British poet Faith Lawrence.[i] We have many ways to describe the things to which we listen: words that catalogue those things that result in sound -like singing, laughing, whispering, shouting- but precious few that describe actually attending…