My newest favoritest sound in the whole world is the sound of church bells. They echo through the air in Italy like the voices from the divine high gods themselves. Like they are saying " hey Jess, stop for a moment, are you in the present moment, are you looking around you, taking in all this beauty, you lucky girl? " ( yes they say all of that ).
The bells chime and chant from dawn till dusk and into the night like a beautiful deep, husky lullaby. I mentioned my love of the sound of the the bells to Luca the other night over dinner and i jokingly said " I bet the guy who has to ding all them bells is pretty tired by the end of the day! ". He(Luca) halfed laughed at my half joke, but it got me thinking so i asked " Do people actually physically ring the bells still or is it all computerised and automated these days? "
His answer was disturbing.....he said " most of them are automated now but some of them just play a CD ". I chocked on my water and nearly fell of my chair..... a CD....a CD.....a CD....! I felt so wronged, i felt so `had´, i felt so used!
Here i had been imagining these beautiful old grand bells swinging back and forth as they sing. Instead its probably just a CD blasting through Bose speakers, with the words `bells 4.oopm´typed on the front of the CD. Well if i do find any of these bell towers with only a dusty little old CD player sitting up there, I'm going to take out the CD, snap the CD in half and throw it over the side and hope that a little black hole in the ground opens up to send that little devil straight back where it came from!
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