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    The Sound of Silence
    The Sound of Silence
    The Sound of Silence
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    The Sound of Silence

    By George Luther Schelling and Barbara Constant

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Sound of Silence - George Luther Schelling

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sound of Silence, by Barbara Constant

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Sound of Silence

      Author: Barbara Constant

      Illustrator: Schelling

      Release Date: October 19, 2009 [EBook #30283]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SOUND OF SILENCE ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction June 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      THE SOUND

      OF SILENCE

      BY BARBARA CONSTANT

      Most people, when asked to define the ultimate in loneliness, say it's being alone in a crowd. And it takes only one slight difference to make one forever alone in the crowd....

      ILLUSTRATED BY SCHELLING

      obody at Hoskins, Haskell & Chapman, Incorporated, knew jut why Lucilla Brown, G.G. Hoskins' secretary, came to work half an hour early every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Even G.G. himself, had he been asked, would have had trouble explaining how his occasional exasperated wish that just once somebody would reach the office ahead of him could have caused his attractive young secretary to start doing so three times a week ... or kept her at it all the months since that first gloomy March day. Nobody asked G.G. however—not even Paul Chapman, the very junior partner in the advertising firm, who had displayed more than a little interest in Lucilla all fall and winter, but very little interest in anything all spring and summer. Nobody asked Lucilla why she left early on the days she arrived early—after all, eight hours is long enough. And certainly nobody knew where Lucilla went at 4:30 on those three days—nor would anybody in the office have believed it, had he known.

      Lucky Brown? seeing a psychiatrist? The typist would have giggled, the office boy would have snorted, and every salesman on the force would have guffawed. Even Paul Chapman might have managed a wry smile. A real laugh had been beyond him for several months—ever since he asked Lucilla confidently, Will you marry me? and she answered, I'm sorry, Paul—thanks, but no thanks.

      Not that seeing a psychiatrist was anything to laugh at, in itself. After all, the year was 1962, and there were almost as many serious articles about mental health as there were

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