![]() ![]() But the sound of a human scream is - perhaps for evolutionary reasons - difficult to tune out. I’ve long been able to mentally delete the whirring of forklifts and stacking of crates. Directly beneath my apartment, and audible through many holes in the floor (it’s an old building) is a warehouse that does a brisk traffic in cabbages and soybean oil. Specifically, there is a great deal of screaming - not screams of pain (thank God), but screams as a form of communication: about moving an object from one place to another, or telling someone to get out of the way of the moving object, or coordinating the arrival or departure of a vehicle containing more objects to move.īackground noise typically doesn’t bother me. every weekday a torrent of robust and erratic noise is transmitted through the thin walls of my apartment. A six-story building is going up catty-corner to where I live, and from 7 a.m. ![]()
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