"In this delightful, phenomenological account, Kittelson writes in lively pursuit of the language of hearing, an ode to the persistent primacy of the ear. _ It's right here, she says, just around the corner from our noses.Kittelson's ear awareness finds side-doors into the topic. She lets us in on a secret as intriguing as Freud's footnote about the gradually diminishing sense of smell in human beings: we have a lapsed instinct for interiority. For turning inward, for spiraling deep into the dark, for following evocative reverberations to their source." - from the Foreword by Nor Hall, Ph.D.