Listen up: In these disquieting COVID-19 times, hushed cities are making a loud impression on our ears
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2020
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The Star, Canada
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"For a blind man in London, Ont., it’s the pitter-patter of approaching footsteps on the sidewalk.
For a librarian in midtown Toronto, it was the rhythmic singsong of a robin perched in a tree.
And for a post-doctoral researcher in Vancouver, it’s the mundane everyday things, such as a cable thwacking against a flagpole in the wind.
In the disquiet of COVID-19 news and the hush of locked-down cities, peoples’ ears are suddenly perking up to new sounds — or sounds that were always there but just drowned out by the whir of urban life..."
For a librarian in midtown Toronto, it was the rhythmic singsong of a robin perched in a tree.
And for a post-doctoral researcher in Vancouver, it’s the mundane everyday things, such as a cable thwacking against a flagpole in the wind.
In the disquiet of COVID-19 news and the hush of locked-down cities, peoples’ ears are suddenly perking up to new sounds — or sounds that were always there but just drowned out by the whir of urban life..."
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