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SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE



992.

All was solitude; but as he gazed upon it he seemed to hear, against the background of morning silence, a faint, continued agitation of silvery sound - hardly a sound at all, if you attended to it, and yet impossible to ignore.

C.S.Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, Macmillan Co., N.Y., N.Y., 1965, p.108.

TIME: mid-1960's

PLACE: a strange and alien planet.

 

993.

Such a roar of sounds as human ears had never heard before - baying of hrossa, piping of pfifltriggi, booming of soans - burst out and rent the silence of that august peace, waking echoes from the distant mountains.

C.S.Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, Macmillan Co., N.Y., N.Y. , 1965, p.128.

TIME: mid-1960's

PLACE: a foreign planet

 

994.

And mixed with the singing - great hollow-like music, from enormous throats, deeper than Chaliapin, a warm, dark noise.

C.S.Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet, Macmillan Co., N.Y., N.Y., 1965, p. 155.

TIME: mid-1960's

PLACE: a very distant planet


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