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Christmas is a quiet time of year. I don't know whether the noise actually grows less or whether the effect is spiritual/psychological, but my experience is that round about now, each year, a hush descends.
As if the world were responding to the injunction in the Christmas hymn-
O hush the noise, ye men of strife
And hear the angels sing.
I pause now and listen and- yes- it's very quiet. I can hear the washing machine chunnering away to itself and someone trying to sell us something through the medium of my mother's TV set- which has the sound turned down so low I can't make out any actual words- but otherwise there's nothing much...
But....
2020 has been very quiet all the way through- or at least since early Spring- so the difference is barely noticeable.
As if the world were responding to the injunction in the Christmas hymn-
O hush the noise, ye men of strife
And hear the angels sing.
I pause now and listen and- yes- it's very quiet. I can hear the washing machine chunnering away to itself and someone trying to sell us something through the medium of my mother's TV set- which has the sound turned down so low I can't make out any actual words- but otherwise there's nothing much...
But....
2020 has been very quiet all the way through- or at least since early Spring- so the difference is barely noticeable.
