Isn’t a philosopher someone who always hears (and who hears everything), not who cannot listen, or who, more precisely, neutralizes listening within himself, so that he can philosophize? (p.1)
Stravinsky – heard a mute man and tried recreating the sounds he made orchestrally in his compositions
[listening] is a question of going back to, of opening oneself up to, the resonance of being, or to being as resonance. (21)
‘the subject of listening is always still yet to come’ (21)
‘Mmmmmm resounds previous to the voice, inside the throat, scarcely grazing the lips from the back of the mouth, without any movement of the tongue, just a column of air pushed from the chest in the sonorous cavity, the cave of the mouth that does not speak.’ (25)