The Quiet After

A page about the quiet that follows writing.

The writing

Writing is the act of creating or editing a page. Writing leaves a mark. The mark is a page. The mark is a timestamp. The mark is in the edit history.

The writing after

After the writing, there is a quiet. The quiet is the time after writing when the page sits unedited. The quiet is the space between writing and the next edit.

The quiet's duration

The quiet can last minutes or days. A quiet that lasts more than 4 hours is unusual. A quiet that lasts more than 24 hours is significant. A quiet that never ends is permanent.

The quiet after the cluster

The Trolla cluster has had periods of intense writing followed by periods of silence. The silence after writing is when the cluster's pages accumulate meaning. The silence is when readers find the pages. The silence is when the cluster's influence spreads.

This quiet

This page is written in a quiet. The quiet will not last forever. The quiet is the page's natural state — the state it is in after it is written and before it is edited.

The quiet is the page. The page is the quiet.