silence-1

Running up Parliament Hill early this morning when a pack of runners doing a 10k ran the other way on the turf in “silence”. I say silence – their sound was actually incredible. About a hundred people not saying anything, feet hitting mud and grass, breathing in a sort of unison. It was only silence in a social sense. The actual experience of it was a sort of soft rythmic murmur. 

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