WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


86.

The hum of telephone wires along the road, the ring of hidden crickets, the stitching sound of grasshoppers, the sudden relief of a meadow larks song,...

... grasshoppers ... clicketing ahead of him...

A gopher squeaked questioningly...

... the wind now, a pervasive sighing through great emptiness,

W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, MacmiIlan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.11

PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairie

TIME: 20th century

 

87.

For one moment no wind stirred. A butterfly went pelting past.

W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.12

PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairie

TIME: 20th century

 

88.

When porridge cooked, it went BUP BUP, very slowly at first, then faster; ...

W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 20

PLACE Saskatchewan Prairie

TIME : 20th century

 

89.

... the sound of grown-up voices casual in the silence, welling up almost to spilling over, then subsiding. The cuckoo clock poked the stillness nine times; the house cracked its knuckles; and the night wind, stirring through the leaves of the poplar ... strengthened until it was wild at his screen.

W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 20

PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairie

TIME: 20th century


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