THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Have you heard of “Stargazing”? I heard about this a few days ago from a co-worker. It’s a twist on speed-dating, apparently, where instead of having a 5-minute conversation you sit across from each other without speaking, silently appraising one another. Then I guess you fill out a little score card, and move along to the next person.
I suppose the theory is that we can be distracted by the content of words become insensitive to unconscious, subliminal signs of attraction, (body language, dilating pupils, wafting pheromones, etc.). These are, after all, what’s really important.
(I don’t know if these sessions ban perfume and cologne, but I bet that would help. Or maybe they should abandon all pretense to civilization and just have everyone circle the room inhaling deeply from each other’s armpits and/or genitals and then honestly reflecting on whether that’s a scent you could tolerate having next to you every night for the next 6 mo. – 2 yrs.)
I’m not sure what my point was. Maybe something like: Sentences, like stars, can dazzle us, but they cast a very dim light to see the world by.
Or maybe that’s just so much bullshit, which seems likely considering I used sentences to communicate all this to you, anonymous internet stranger. But at least they’re silent sentences.
