Communication (1)

You can hear a hum up there.  Voices and vehicles, the sounds of people and machines moving across the city – all communicating.  With gestures and words or with horns and lights.

 

Cars and buses and trains zoom and hush between cities, dropping off and picking up people and their possessions.  They reach destinations, and either through signification or the imparting of actual spoken message; stories, histories and confidences are shared.

 

Smaller, immobile machines communicate long distance – words travel along cables, from receiver to transmitter to receiver.  Words are hurriedly typed, words are hurriedly sent.  They buzz around us, codes and symbols hidden temporarily amongst the ether, the fog and the chatter.

 

(Rhetoric is shared this way too.  Partly formed / informed opinions and thoughts clog our atmospheres, unrealised).

~ by thebreadcrumbtrail on April 15, 2008.