Humming into the void
Mar 17, 2021
2 minutes
Jason Goodwin
DO you know about the South Somerset Hum? It isn’t the sound of bees in a cider orchard or Morris men girding up on the village green, nor the buzz of an instrument, like the homely humstrum of William Barnes’s dialect poem, whose ‘_ did ring the string,/As _ the wires did clang’. I’m talking about a relentless, is keeping local residents up at night.
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