GRGR(16) DeLillo on Silence

[Peter Petto]

It seemed serendipitous as I was reading a Christmas gift, John Leonard's 
_When the Kissing Had to Stop_, to find this quote from Don DeLillo:

>Perhaps there is no silence. Or maybe it's just that time is too compact
>to allow for silence to be felt. But in some form of void, freed from
>consciousness, the mind remakes itself. What we must know must be
>learned from blacked-out pages. To begin to reword the overflowing
>world. To subtract and disjoin. To re-recite the alphabet.... To call
>something by its name and need no other word.

(I believe this is from _End Zone_.)

It brought to mind our recent discussion here.

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"Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second."
Bernard Berenson (1865–1959)