Monday, August 31, 2009
The Sound of the Sun
A few weeks ago Son2 and I were walking home from the park. It was a brutally hot morning, and only the dog, who'd taken a dip in the creek, wasn't miserable from the heat. The cicadas were buzzing like crazy and Son2 stopped in his tracks and said, "What is that sound?" I told him it was the cicadas, and he said, "Oh...I always just thought it was the sound of the sun."
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That made me laugh! In "Twilight", Bella is describing things from Phoenix to Edward, and I've often wondered how I would describe the sound of cicadas. Now I know :)
Sweet. The first time I really became aware of cicadas as "the sound of the sun" was during Ken Burns' Civil War documentary. The narrator was describing the conditions in a prisoner of war camp during a sweltering summer, and in the background they had the sound of cicadas. It made it very easy to imagine the heat.
That is fantastic.
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