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chained_bear commented on the word great listening
"As the weeks passed, the sun would sink lower beneath the horizon and the fields of ice and snow would be transformed rom the purest white to a wash of gold and then to a violet twilight. The days were shorter now, just four hours of sunlight, and the temperatures plunged. Finally, a cavernous silence would descend on the coast like a 'great listening.'"
--Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic (NY and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 8
See also white silence.
January 24, 2017