IN THE DESERT WINTER NIGHT

Image by S. Auberle

"In the desert winter night, good and warm

in a duck down bag, the silence is so intense

that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears.

But louder than that by far is the mysterious roar

which I always identify with the roaring

of the diamond of wisdom, the mysterious roar

of silence itself, reminding you of something

you seem to have forgotten

in the stress of the days since birth."

- Jack Kerouac

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