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Shifting the Silence by Etel Adnan

4.5

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Meditations on silence, eternity, language, writing, revelation, thought, place, dying, time, light, day: "Delphi still waits for the offerings of the tribes. Nothing is coming, it seems. The oracle got discouraged, tired of predicting our disasters, our guiltless presidents and dictators. She got tired of watching the joy, the bliss felt by the 'rulers' of our world when they unleash their total wars. She's silent." (63)