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Talking about Silence

The Essay

Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the many varieties of spiritual silence in human life and beyond, and what he's learned of its meanings in his career as a historian of religion.

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Good Silence, Bad Silence

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    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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