It follows, I have noted this before, that silence is how we reset meters, and timing, and all the rhythms and measurements that flow from such notions. Without such absolutes, without the idea of an absolute at which measurement ends, we would have no starting point for nor end to our philosophies. No dropping back to zero, no de-clutching of our geared structures, no end to gauging, no reboot of madly cycling programs.

George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, loc. 531