In a sense, the recording stylus and its reverse component have defeated time. Up until a little more than a generation ago, the sound of a word once uttered, a violin note once played, were possible treasures dropped into the none too safe repository of human memory; but the same sounds transferred to a wax or plastic or film or wire can live and vibrate again fifteen minutes or fifty years from now.
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About Judith C. Waller, Radio: The Fifth Estate
Judith C. Waller, Radio: The Fifth Estate.
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it