Please note well, all you writers, editors, directors <br />out there: when a phone call is terminated <br />by the other person you do not, NOT, hear <br />the buzz of a dial tone. You hear a faint click <br />and then silence, absolute silence, the Great <br />Silence, more eloquent than any electronic <br />buzz could ever be. In fact the dial tone <br />cannot be heard until you yourself hang up <br />and then lift the receiver again. Further <br />note this: you cannot tell from the click <br />if the other person has hung up reluctantly <br />or desperately, softly or violently. It is only <br />the sound of a disconnected circuit. I've read <br />this error in a thousand books, I've seen it <br />in a thousand movies, and how so many <br />of you can be so unobservant, you who <br />call yourselves artists, is beyond me. <br />Ah, my friends, you are becoming my <br />enemies, and I'm appalled by your irreverence <br />for the simple truth that should sustain us all.<br /><br />Hayden Carruth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/something-for-the-trade/
