numbers stations revisited / new format <=the ultimate unbreakable network=> "INTERMITTING A low, tremulous, intermitting sound, though it seems in some respects opposite to that just mentioned, is productive of the sublime. It is worth while to examine this a little. The fact itself must be determined by every man's own experience, and reflection. I have already observed, that night increases our terror more perhaps than any thing else; it is our nature, that, when we do not know what may happen to us, to fear the worst that can happen us: and hence it is, that uncertainty is so terrible, that we often seek to be rid of it, at the hazard of a certain mischief. Now some low, confused, certain sounds, leave us in the same fearful anxiety concerning their causes, that no light, or a uncertain light does concerning the objects that surround us. [...] But a light now appearing, and now leaving us, and so off and on, is even more terrible than total darkness; and a sort of uncertain sounds are, when the necessary dispositions concur, more alarming than a total silence." (from Edmund Burke, A philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part II, Section XIX, Intermitting) http://www.alansondheim.org/sig0.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/9100.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/9100b.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/sig2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sig5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sig7.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sigb.jpg _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
