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For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Susanna Clarke
Cat, Silence, Peculiar
Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.630, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.