Sydney Morning Herald
Helene Gonski
August 7, 2007
I WANT to make a noise about noise.
I wake up to a screeching of brakes. The builders have arrived next door. They are renovating a house recently built, which to my way of thinking looked great the way it was. The knocking and banging starts. The drill is piercing like a horrific visit to the dentist.
I climb onto the train on my way to work. I am surrounded by passengers whose mobile telephones are ringing ...
I know I am in the older bracket and a little less tolerant, but where is there a quiet corner in our world? Why are we so intimidated by silence? ...
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