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Silence: the never spoken, the yet to set itself into language, the unique, the individual, madness, the unrepresentable, the space of that which is not to be represented, the closet.
Silence: the unspeakable, the perceived but best not said, the ignored, the space occupied by that which is ignored, the hidden, the safely tucked away, the camouflaged, the safety of camouflage. (Patton 34)
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– Patton, Cindy. “Power and the Conditions of Silence.” Critical Quarterly 31.3 (1989): 26-39.
