WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE



691.

Bird voices twirled over my head, intricate as skaters or running water, the air filling with liquid syllables.

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972, p. 125.

PIACE: Northern Quebec

TIME: 1972

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692.

I pause in the middle of the room listening: no wind, stillness, held breath of the lake, the trees ... My footsteps are the only sounds, reverberation of shoes on wood.

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972, p. 171.

PIACE: Northern Quebec

TIME: 1972

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693.

In a moment the first rain hits the roof. It patters, changes to a steady drumming, sound of an avalanche, surrounding.

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972, p. 174.

PIACE: Northern Quebec

TIME: 1972

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694.

Above on the roof is the finger-tapping of water dripping from trees.

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing, McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972.

PIACE: Northern Quebec

TIME: 1972

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