Got subtract pedant points for the fact that noiseâ sound so ânoisyâ is not the âdefaultâ of sound.
Noise is incoherent sound.
There was a recent NYT crossword puzzle that relied on that punny meaning of ad hominem/homonym.
In C.S. Lewisâs Screwtape Letters, Hell is full of loud, incoherent noise, and the demons hate both music and silence.
C.S. Lewis probably imagined it as jazz. Or am I being unfair?
I only read Narnia as a later teen and I found the couple I read after the first three(?) to be sickeningly christofascist and racist.
You probably are, as well as the âchristofascistâ thing. Racism, sadly, youâre not wrong about.
And the Christo- part, absolutely, but not the fascist I donât think.
They were huge fans of Franco (Catholic)⌠stuff like Rupert Brooke too.
A lot of European catholics would have been fans of Franco even if they werenât so hot on Mussolini and wanted Hitler dead (Mussolini appealed to âintellectualsâ rather than religious types).
Remember for tomorrow, if Once upon a time you were falling in love
Now youâre only falling apart
Thereâs nothing you can do
This is a different type of eclipse.
Damn autocorrect.
It must have been love
But itâs oval now
