Note sull'episodio
She sang in the shower on Tuesday mornings.
I had known this for three years and never once heard it.
I want to be exact about that, because it is the whole of the episode and the whole of what I had learned and kept learning: that knowing a thing and hearing it are not the same, that you can live beside a sound for three years and have it not reach you, blocked by the simple fact that you are not listening, that listening is not a thing the ears do automatically but a thing the whole attention has to choose to do. I had known, the way you know the furniture, that Saloni sometimes made sound in the shower. I had filed it under the ambient data of a shared life, along with the click of the geyser and the particular complaint of the bathroom tap, and I had never once actually heard it,...
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