Music of Silence

An article about Alain de Brunhoff, a talented Parisian pianist and teacher who abruptly left society, first as a Benedictine, then as a hermit. Brunhoff told the writer: “The point of passing time in solitude is to strip yourself bare, to discover what is essential and true. When you’re strippped down to this point, you see how little you amount to. But that little is all that God is interested in. He doesn’t give a damn about the rest.” In Atlantic Monthly, October 1997; URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97oct/silence.htm.