“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
- George Eliot (Epigraph to “Unless” by Carol Shields)
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They say in Tamil “Saadhu meranda kaadu kolladhu”.. when silence roars, even the huge forest would be no match!
Comment by Kishore — July 25, 2006 @ 1:28 pm
hi uma. this is a lovely quote and it’s also in ahdaf soueief’s ‘in the eye of the sun’, which is one of my favourite books.
Comment by chinmayee — July 25, 2006 @ 2:30 pm
Thanks for that, Kishore. Lovely line.
Thanks, Chinmayee, for reminding me of Ahdaf Soueif… are you back in town?
Comment by uma — July 25, 2006 @ 5:35 pm