"Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you’re never quite on the beat. Sometimes you’re ahead and sometimes you’re behind. Instead of the swift and imperceptible flowing of time, you are aware of its nodes, those points where time stands still or from which it leaps ahead. And you slip into the breaks and look around."
Ralph Ellison, from Invisible Man
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I was once told by a drummer that to drum well, one must listen to the silence between the beats, not to the beats themselves. One must feel the silence and enter into it; otherwise one rushes to fill up the silence, and the beat gets faster and faster until eventually it is just noise. Your quote reminds me of that.
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