The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.
Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?
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