The Meaning of Silence
Peter Medawar, 2 February 1984
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
by Lewis Thomas.
Viking, 168 pp., $12.95, November 1983,0 670 70390 7 Show More
by Lewis Thomas.
Viking, 168 pp., $12.95, November 1983,
“... all communications beyond the reach of a human shout. None of the buttons pressed in Moscow or Washington, if either lay beneath the rays, would function. The silos would not open on command, or fire their missiles. During this period the affected country would be, in effect, anaesthetised, and the follow-on missiles from the other side could pick off ... ”