“There are two silences.
One when no word is spoken.
The other when perhaps a torrent
of language is being employed.”

Harold Pinter, 1962

Stille Nacht…

Pinter died on December 24, 2008:

Top center front page, online NY Times, Christmas 2008-- Pinter dead at 78

Heilige Nacht…

Also on Christmas Eve, 2008

(“24/12/08  3:23 pm”):

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