i don't know when my ears started ringing but they still ring. i think of the house tuner in the sound of silence. he puts headphones on and when asked what he's listening to says, nothing. he maps the sound of the city but at a certain point it doesn't work anymore, he can't tune it right, it's cacophonous, there's a ringing in the soundtrack just like in my ears, i'm hearing both, and there's a kind of equilibrium, it's personal, but it's the city, and the world as well. this is a paragraph, with no caps and no period at the end