Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is

Edward Hoagland
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Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. ✨ Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). Tugman's Passage, Lyons Press
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Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. ✨ Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). Tugman's Passage, Lyons Press

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