George M Foy
Autore di Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence
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Foy realizes at a crossroads -- a four-track train station -- that his life in a small Manhattan apartment with three other people is too loud, and the train stations are worse. He trots through being told that common sound-scapes are loud enough to cause considerable damage to people who have to live in them, but most of the book is a litterateur's travel guide to various places on earth that are almost completely silent (acoustic test chambers, deep mines, etc). He never finds perfect silence, though he does spend a chapter or two worrying that he has tinnitus and will therefore be forever deprived of it.
In the last few pages, he grants that having a relatively quiet life, with the voices of his family, will be what he has to settle for; this keeps him from seeming completely inane; but I didn't notice anything in the whole in which he considered the noise he inflicted on other people.… (altro)