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primordial silence itself.
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The dial tone is that state of awareness of the divine that Buddy
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speaks of when he says- when he speaks of being with
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God before God said, "Let there be light."
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Zooey's voice breaking that dial tone in the beginning in his phone
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call, and then the resumption of it afterwards,
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that dial tone encases Zooey's voice, so that what Zooey says to her is
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one of the rays of light of God's creation,
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one of those things, like Shakespeare, that is part of
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the whole created world, but what Franny can tune into,
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after hearing his voice, is that very essential divine sound,
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meaningless sound.