Human speech is a profanation when it is not preceded by a long silence.
via: Vasco Brondi, Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi, 2025), chapter Urlare senza suono
Info & reflection: silence is not the absence of speech but what makes it possible.
Related in anthology
- Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente, altre forme d'arte — Weil in the Urlare senza suono chapter, where Brondi defends his long silences between one record and the next