Some religions say that the universe was started with a word, a song, a dance, a piece of music. The Listening Monks of the Ramtops have trained their hearing until they can tell the value of a playing card by listening to it, and have made it their task to listen intently to the subtle sounds of the universe to piece together, from the fossil echoes, the very first sounds. There was certainly, they say, a very strange noise at the beginning of everything. But the keenest ears (the ones who win most at poker), who listen to the frozen echoes in ammonites and amber, sear they can detect some tiny sounds before that. It sounded, they say, like someone counting: One, Two, Three, Fours. The very best one, who listened to basalt, said he thought he could make out, very faintly, some numbers that came even earlier. When they asked him what it was, he said: It sounds like One, Two. (uit Soul Music, door Terry Pratchett ) (Als je dit niet meesterlijk vindt denk ik niet dat we nog met elkaar om kunnen gaan, sorry.)
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:22:16 +0000