When you hear pieces such as Apple Bed or Morning Hollow, you hear a musician with an innate understanding of the power of restraint.
— Every year, about 275,000 people tour the Jack Daniel's distillery here, and as they stroll through its brick buildings nestled in a tree-shaded hollow, they hear a story like this: Sometime in the 1850s, when Daniel was a boy, he went to work for a preacher, grocer and distiller named Dan Call.
John Clare weaves English words into a nest and in the cup he stipples rhyme, like mud, to clutch the shape of something he can hold but not yet hear; and in the hollow of his hearing, he feathers a space with a down of verbs and nouns heads-up.
The little girl was the grandmother of Emily Storms Arminio, a 10th-generation native of Sleepy Hollow, who recalls hearing the tale often.
This was not merely one of those hollow excuses you hear from retiring athletes and corporate executives, the one about wanting to spend more time with their families.
Then it evolves: "She noticed some bleeding and heard hollow coughing and National Geographic was being too graphic,/ When all she had wanted to know was the traffic,/ 'The world's got a nosebleed' it said".
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, that wonderful aphorist, once asked, "When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?" The answer is, very likely not.
The hollow thudding you heard next was the sound of what was left of the Republican gubernatorial campaign having a fatal heart attack.
If you knock to hear hollow sounds, then it's good to go.
If you hear hollow sounds when knocking, then it's good.
If you knock to hear hollow sounds, then it's good.
