I hear a long white rectangle. I have been trying to sleep for hours, but cyclically something has always caught my hearing. Now it is already morning and I still can't untangle myself from all these sounds.
Were they here yesterday too?
The leaves keep laughing uproariously, while my daily commitments are marked out by bubble sounds. Maybe I need to go somewhere there is true silence, the open kind, whose horizon you cannot see.
I've decided: I'm leaving now. I know a place where, wherever you turn, you see nothing but a silent blue film. It's not far, I think thirty minutes from here will do... I should go there more often.
My paws slip between the blades of grass still wet with dew, a pleasant sensation, a perfect introduction to the great calm I am looking for. A green rustle rises from the ground toward the sky, brushing my skin. The drops of dew seep into my pores, hydrating me.
Since I arrived I have tried to remember what happened along the way, but I only remember that the pleasant sensation that accompanied me at the start of my journey soon vanished. It took me only twenty minutes to get here; halfway there I was chased by two really big, heavy noises, and I quickened my pace, almost running.
I am exhausted, but luckily the place is just as I remembered it. Even just looking into the distance is tiring; a blanket of silence hides every detail. I will keep going a few meters in a straight line, to avoid getting lost in the absence of reference points.
I see something lying on the ground. Coming closer, I understand: it is a circle, made of ten sounds of various sizes. Someone must have brought them all the way here, as the only diffusion in the silence. I am amazed by this selection: each of the ten sounds completes the next, and the circle closes in a continuous interweaving.
The size of the circle welcomes my curled-up body perfectly. I have decided that my search is over and I let myself go to the comfort of sound -to a provisional order- while waiting to feel nostalgia for everything my ears are used to hearing every day.
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