- 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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