010 Noises

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They keep you awake at night, jarring you out of encroaching sleep or else jerking you out of paralyzing dream. It’s the sibilant hiss, the raucous rattle and clank, of steam heat radiators. Sometimes the hissing of the steam sounds like whispers, voices, malevolent snake demons from the darkest pits of Hell. Sometimes the metallic clanks and clangs sound like someone, somewhere, is beating the radiators and pipes with a wrench; possibly from the inside. It is easy to imagine some spirit or energy inside the radiators, inside the pipes, burbling away in the boilers squatting in the basements. It is easy to imagine their attempts at communion, at threat, at hostility.

You can relax. There is nothing living in the radiators, the pipes, the boiler. They are a simple, albeit noisy and often poorly maintained, heat source.

Of course, their noise is enough to cover up quite a lot of other noise and commotion.

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