“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.”

—  Dejan Stojanovic

"Hush," p. 61
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Big Chamber”

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