Beside my already mentioned favourite authors Terry Pratchett and John Irving I also like Jonathan Carroll very much. His novels are quite weird, there's fantasy, magic, horror ... his stories are fantastic and discerning.Jonathan Carroll was born in America and is now living in Vienna, Austria (and just like John Irving he mentions Austria in his novels from time to time).
In his novel 'Outside the Dog Museum' (about a famous architect who shall build a dog museum for a wealthy Sultan) there is an interesting statement concerning music:
Some centuries are happy being quiet and looking at the sky. Ours spends all ist time trying like crazy to fill that sky up!
There's no silence left, no minute when you can think or be still a while. How about places like elevators or the 'hold' line on a telephone: Elevators used to give you those few precious moments when you could stop in between floors and think about what you were going to say or about what'd just happened in your life. Now you walk into a little box full of 'Strangers in the Night'.
It also ruins the whole idea of music, which is something you should pay attention to, not resent or ignore while you're waiting for a call to go through.
Quite nicely stated IMHO. My personal strategy to escape a noisy environment is to walk around 'plugged in', listening to my MP3s. That way it's not quiet, but at least it's music I like to listen to.
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