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She knows now it's a symptom.

But still, these days when she's reading or concentrating on something beautiful... When words turn into images in your mind, the tones come back.

For her, the tones are still a sign that she's attained some mental quiet.

She's paying attention to what is here, even if the sound that she's actually listening to is just the brain's song of grief for what is gone.

So that was The Sound of Silence by Gregory Warner.

It's a beautiful piece.

And what I love about it in particular is I know Gregory Warner's work from NPR.

He was a longtime foreign journalist, did Rough Translation, the NPR podcast.

And this allows you to get a different side of what he can create.

Yeah.

So let's play another piece.

This is from Circuit No.

2, and the theme is Listening With.

Anne, can you describe this theme and how you came to it?

And so what's this piece that we're going to listen to from this circuit?

But that's not it.

We have to go to this country and see another country.

What do you think?

So that was In Between Silence.

And, you know, when you hear this piece together with or next to Gregory Warner's story, you get these two different meditations on silence.