Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)

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On 2018-03-20, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-03-20, Bob Eager wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:16:57 -0500, JimP wrote:
>>
>>> a particular time each hour. Even though rooms full of people had been
>>> gabbing away loudly just seconds before.
>>
>> Possibly this?
>>
>>  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section10/
>
> No, not Poe either.  I'm pretty sure it's a short story from an SF
> genre writer.  Possibly Asimov; I haven't read a lot by him, but he
> had stories with The Creator/God/Judgement Day aspects, which IIRC
> this one had -- the silences were a biological remnant or racial
> memory.  People subconciously stopped talking in order to listen to
> the voice of some supreme being.

Plato, in 'Republic' had the concept that the planets and such in
their movement through 'space', made a musical sound that people usually
did't hear as it was a constant. (As far as I remember, it's been a
while.). There was a connection with the Greek (ancient) theories on
music.

>
> It could be Philip K. Dick too, or pretty much any SF author.
>
> Whatever story this is, it's hidden in some yellowing paperback in my
> library.
>
> /Jorgen
>


-- 
greymaus.ireland.ie
Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man

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