Social butterfly and Metal Gear Solid enthusiast Burial has been relatively quiet since his "Temple Sleeper" single release on Keysound last year, but thanks to the miracle of physical music duplication, that's all about to change.
So far this year he's released a solo album, Sleeper, that was quiet, folky and introverted.
But none of these Christmas commercials have had the quiet charm of this year's sleeper hit from Allegro, an online auction website in Poland, which doesn't even sell products in the UK.
They still have their sleeper cells.
I lingered round [the three graves], under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth".
When Lockwood visits Heathcliff's and Cathy's graves at the end of the novel, the poetry in the voice is Brontë's: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth".
Here, he sharply criticizes the idea that dreams are of divine origin, but allows that occasionally, diagnostic or even prophetic dreams are caused by small affections, which are drowned out in wakefulness and have a more pronounced effect during the quiet of sleep, thus enabling the sleeper to perceive distant events.
Quiet political discussions continued around the sleepers.
Cell phone vibrators are quiet, but will not rouse a heavy sleeper.
