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  • The Silence of Sounds

    They talked but no one listened

    By Carl Dow

    Image: Portrait of Carl Dow by Lena Wilson Endicott, 1995.
    Portrait of the author, by the late Lena Wilson Endicott, 1995.

    It was a private dinner for four. A doctor, an architect, a machinist, and me.

    We had worked our way through the appetizer and were into the main course.

    The doctor, a specialist in psychiatry, held her end of the table.

    “I really shouldn’t be saying this. Confidentiality and all that. But since you don’t know him, and I’m certain, will never meet him, I feel I can speak openly without actually breaking our privacy code. (more…)