WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


58.

... my fall was stopped by a terrible Squash, that sounded louder to mine Ears than the Cataract of Niagara...

Jonathan Swift,Gulliver's Travels, published by George Faulkner, London, 1896

CIRCUMSTANCE: Swift imagines Niagara, a sound he has never heard.


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