• the release of a retractable ballpoint pen
  • Gregorian chants echoing in old stone cathedrals
  • a beautiful, fragile song on the harp
  • a distant train horn
  • windchimes swaying and tinkling
  • accordion wistfulness
  • the whales' hymn
  • typewriter click-clacks
  • silence
  • summer-night cricket choirs
  • ascension of a roller-coaster up the first hill (clack, clack, clack)
  • splatter of ink
  • the tick-tick-tick of bicycle wheels
  • shears through fabric
  • D's laugh
  • fireside crackles
  • out-of-tune guitar strings
  • clippity-clop, a horse's trot
  • bird coos, particularly that of doves and pigeons
  • Patrick Watson's murmuring voice
  • white noise: fans, radiator hum, etc.
  • music-boxes
  • air-trumpets or beatboxing
  • thunder that rolls
  • tap dancers (those with a good sense of rhythm)
  • foreign accents
  • stormy nights: wind whistling through door cracks, hard rain pounding on glass fronts
  • spoon swirls that hit gently against teacups
  • the low rumbling of plane acceleration as it readies for take-off, escalating in intensity
  • ocean waves caving into each other
jan 29 2011 ∞
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