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Volume can refer to the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object. Architects shape the volume of the spaces we live and work in. We find things to fill the volume. Sometimes we fill it with silence.

Volume can refer to the loudness of a sound. Pump up the volume, crank it up to ten (or eleven) and rip off the knob. But a volume knob I think must be a 20th century expression. I wonder sometimes if we have lost something when we have only bigger sounds.

Volume can refer to a series of of issues of a periodical or separate bindings of a very large work like an encyclopedia. Some of us write volumes. And I’ve heard it said that silence speaks volumes. But that is another post.

Today I’m wondering, if I increase the silence, has the volume gone up or down or both?

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