One day the musicians stood and played their instruments, accompanying the game with singing. A lot of people danced, marched and moved to their music, in time with the sounds and chords.
One deaf man from birth looked at this whole spectacle and was surprised. He asked himself: “What does this mean? Is it really just because those people are doing different things with their instruments, tilting them this way and that, raising them, lowering them, and the like, that this whole crowd of people is fooling around, jumping, making various strange body movements and generally getting so excited?”
For a deaf man, this whole spectacle was an insoluble question, because he lacked hearing, and as a result, the enthusiastic driving feeling that is awakened in a normal person by the sounds of music was incomprehensible to him.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru