Just because / BEg2 chapter 8 WoS

[Mark Kohut]

I think here in BE this idiom is extended to apply to the tech world,
(almost obviously from the context) Wall of silence - Idioms by The Free
Dictionary <https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/wall+of+silence>

1. An unspoken policy of concealment by police regarding the wrongdoing or
illicit activity of other officers. A variation on the phrase "blue wall of
silence."






On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 1:13 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> It’s not that I’m part of any faction of denialism.
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> It’s that I dislike the official narrative as a text.
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> You know, the way some people (difficult as it is for me to believe)
> dislike certain Pynchon novels. No matter how much I remonstrate and
> demonstrate their goodness!
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> A-and back to BE!
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> “Against her better judgment, she steps into the dimly lit grease- and
> cigarette-smoke interior of Wall
> of Silence, once a tech-bubble hot spot, since fallen into greasyspoondom.“
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> Is there a connotation to Wall of Silence that I’m missing?
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> Sound of Silence, I know that song.
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> But wall of silence?
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