In Pursuit of Silence Page #2
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- 2015
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DAVID TUDOR:
They were incensed.They were in an uproar
over the performance.
And afterwards, John opened
the floor to questions.
One of the artists got up
and said,
"Good people of Woodstock,
"I think we should
run these people out of town."
That was the reaction. (LAUGHS)
PICO IYER:
Silence is wherewe hear something deeper
than our chatter.
something deeper than our words.
(INAUDIBLE)
All of us know that the most
essential things in life
are exactly what
we can't express.
Our relation to faith,
our relation to love,
our relation to death,
our relation to divinity.
I think silence is the resting
place of everything essential.
ROSS:
For the first,I don't know how many,
hundred thousand years
of human life,
when we were out
on the savanna,
learning about the forest,
silence was essential
to our survival.
So, silence is
our natural milieu,
and the farther we get
away from silence,
the more we lose our humanity.
(AIRPLANE RUMBLING)
PUNDIT ON TV:
I want youto answer the questions!
I want you
to answer the questions!
- Was there...
- WOMAN:
Do I believe...- I'm giving you an opportunity.
- This is how to ask it.
This is how you need...
I'm giving you an opportunity.
I'm doing the interview, Dana.
- But you weren't there...
- I don't need to...
PROCHNIK:
American individualismnow has become
more and more associated with
our right and our
almost social obligation
to impose our will on the world,
to get out our thoughts,
to not hesitate, to not be shy.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
In race after race,
bottom line...
- In race after race...
- Third card trick...
In race after race,
Democrats...
- When it comes to women.
- Winning over women...
There is such an intense,
overwhelming drive
to contribute our
little ricocheting response
to this soul-crushing din
of the moment.
- ...over me. You're not...
- (INDISTINCT)
- One of the specific plans...
- You're not gonna filibuster.
- I'm not going to let you do it.
- Ed, Ed, Ed!
Let me answer your question
you asked me earlier.
- (CONTINUES TALKING)
- I'll go back to this question.
PROCHNIK:
Throughout Japanese history,
there has been an appreciation
of softer, quieter
registers of being.
One of the most
signal instances of this
is really in relationship
to the tea ceremony.
One of the most
important masters, Sen Rikyu,
lived at a time
of incredible martial activity
among different samurai groups.
And part of his interest
in developing the tea ceremony,
in the ways that he did,
was to cultivate
an appreciation for silence
and silence's relationship
to a more
pacific environment
in general.
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