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Looking Around - On Sound (Part 1): Noise

If you are able, take a moment - 30 seconds or so - and simply listen. What do you hear? If you, like me, are sitting in a quiet part of the house, you probably hear the wind rustling outside, the hum...

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Anonymous

What didn't quite make it into this extract is the type of noise Lady Russell can't stand: noisy children and the people who attempt to talk over them!

Anonymous

THIS WAS FASCINATING

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"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint. No, these were noises which belonged to the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like Mrs Musgrove, she was feeling, though not saying, that after being long in the country, nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness." (Jane Austen, Persuasion) For the context, go here: <a href="http://www.literaturepage.com/read/persuasion-117.html." rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.literaturepage.com/read/persuasion-117.html.</a>