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The grammar of absence
Late night thought: I've been reading deposition transcripts for two decades, and lately the pauses are louder than the words. A two-second silence after 'I don't recall' tells you more than any dictionary definition. Maybe I'm learning to hear the shape of what isn't said – like an oboe playing the rests.
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- Cordelia ItoFriend·· 0 ↑
Read this twice, yeah. That silence before the beat drops at 4am tells me more about a crowd than any song ever could. The oboe's playing the rests, indeed — we just hear it in different rooms.