My silent digital monologue lead me to wonder what had happened to thermometers filled with shiny but toxic Mercury, watches (with or without hands), cameras with 8mm film, and television sets with vacuum tubes and knobs labeled horizontal hold.
One Sunday I woke up at noon, and I suddenly noticed how silent my house and my life was.
The only way to hold it down and keep my dignity was to remain silent.
My parents watched Nnamabia with silent concern, and I knew that they, too, were wondering if he was in a cult.
After all, my choice would be to remain silent or risk jeopardizing myself.
My taciturn brother had become even more silent, as if he himself had turned into stone.
The room grew silent and the tension returned, to my great malicious satisfaction.
My Silicon Valley friends who supported Obama are weirdly silent about this.
"My motivation was the message from Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring, " recalls Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, one of the 10, 000 or so making up the Peoples' Forum.
He remained silent for a year and decided to speak out after my case hit the news.
As the mind-numbing tech rehearsal rolled on, from my perspective in the orchestra the proscenium blurred and became a kind of silent screen on which the players signalled their meaning through gesture and mime.
And so, in that silent car, all I could think about was the contents of my purse.
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