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" The world is always more than what we see, and our understanding of it is always incomplete, always in the process of becoming ".

And I thought to myself - what is wrong with this world...

- Oh, Body, do you hear it, the silence all around ? It's more than just an absence, it is a presence that rises from the ground.

- But Mind, I feel the Struggle, the words that cannot speak, in the supremacy of Silence, my strength begins to leak.

- Then think about it, with nothing left to lose, you may be stronger, you may be free to choose.

Reading this, Hemingway's " Hills Like White Elephants " came into my mind.
The pauses and the deafening silence in that dialogue say more than the ending let to be understood, otherwise Hemingway is a master of laconic insight and of the use of silence in storytelling. It's like I hear Hemingway, telling to talkative Proust : " Less is more, Marcel. Sometimes, you just need to let the reader breathe."

" We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven ".

Silence as a foundational élément of speech.