A Book of Silence

by Sara Maitland

  freedom of expression, 1, 2

  Freire, Paolo, 1

  French Resistance, 1

  French Revolution, 1

  Freud, Sigmund, 1, 2, 3

  Friends, 1

  fungi, 1

  Gaelic, 1, 2, 3

  Galloway, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  gannets, 1

  Gap Years, 1

  gardens and gardening, 1, 2, 3

  Gateshead, 1

  Gaul, 1

  Gautama Buddha, 1, 2

  Gellner, Ernest, 1

  ‘genius’, 1

  George V, King, 1

  Germany, 1

  Gethsemane monastery, 1, 2

  Gibbon, Edward, 1

  Gilbert and Sullivan, 1

  Girvan, 1

  ‘givennness’, sense of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Glen Affric, 1

  Glenbrittle, 1

  glossolalia, 1

  Gnostics, 1

  God

  name of, 1

  nature of, 1

  Godwin, William, 1

  Golden Globe race, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  golden plover, 1

  Goldilocks, 1

  Goldsworthy, Andy, 1

  Goldsworthy, Joanna, 1

  ‘Goose Girl, The’, 1

  Gormley, Anthony, 1

  Göttingen, 1

  Goutran de Procius, 1

  Gowdie, Isobel, 1

  Grand Canyon, 1

  Grand Tours, 1

  Grassian, Stuart, 1, 2

  Gray, Thomas, 1, 2

  Great Caledonian Forest, 1

  Great Chthonic Terror, 1

  Greece, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Greek, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Greek deities, 1

  Greek temples, 1

  Greer, Germaine, 1

  Grey, Anthony, 1, 2, 3

  Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 1, 2

  Guinevere, 1

  Hadrian’s Wall, 1

  Hagar, 1

  hagiography, 1, 2

  Hamilton, Ian, 1

  happiness, pursuit of, 1

  Haran, 1

  Harris, 1

  Hawking, Richard, 1

  hearing, 1, 2, 3

  hearing loss, 1

  Heathery Burn, 1

  heaven, 1

  Hebrides, 1

  Heliopolis, 1

  hen harriers, 1, 2

  heresy, 1

  Hermaness bird sanctuary, 1

  hermits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  and accidie, 1, 2, 3

  Buddhist, 1

  desert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  English, 1

  island, 1, 2

  and joy, 1

  modern, 1

  and romanticism, 1

  and sexual torment, 1

  Hermopolis, 1

  Hexham, 1

  Hickson, Ford, 1

  Highland Clearances, 1, 2, 3

  Hildegard of Bingen, 1

  Hillary, Edmund, 1

  Himalayas, 1, 2, 3

  Hofstadter, Douglas, 1, 2

  Holy Trinity, 1

  honeymoons, 1

  hortus conclusus, 1

  house martins, 1

  House of Commons, 1

  housekeeping, 1

  Howard, Philip, 1

  Howell, Bill, 1

  human rights, 1

  Hume, Cardinal Basil, 1

  Hunt, John, 1, 2

  hypertension, 1

  Ibn Tufail, 1, 2

  Ice Age, 1

  Iceland, 1

  identity, 1, 2

  ‘If ’ (Kipling), 1

  ikebana, 1

  India, 1

  Indian Ocean, 1

  individualism, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Industrial Revolution, 1, 2

  ineffability, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  negative, 1

  infanticide, 1

  infinity, 1

  insects, 1, 2, 3

  insomnia, 1

  integrity, 1

  ‘Intimations of Immortality’ (Wordsworth), 1

  Inuit languages, 1

  Inverness, 1

  Iona, 1, 2

  Iraq, 1

  Ireland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Irish poetry, 1

  Irish Sea, 1, 2

  Ishmael, 1

  Islam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  political, 1

  islands, 1

  Islay, 1

  Isle of Man, 1, 2

  Isle of Wight, 1, 2

  Israel, 1

  Italy, 1, 2, 3

  Jane Eyre (Brontë), 1

  Japan, 1

  Jenks, Charles, 1

  Jerusalem, 1, 2

  destruction of the Temple, 1

  fall of, 1

  Jesus Christ, 1, 2, 3

  birth of, 1

  fasting in desert, 1, 2

  and martyrdom, 1

  trial of, 1

  Jia Dao, 1

  Jones, Rhys, 1

  Jordan, 1

  joy (jouissance), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Juan Fernandez, 1

  Judaism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Julian of Norwich, 1, 2, 3

  Jung, Carl Gustav, 1

  Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 1

  jungles, 1

  Kafka, Franz, 1, 2, 3

  Kennacraig, 1

  Kennedy, Robert, 1

  kenosis, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Kentucky, 1, 2

  Kerouac, Jack, 1

  Khemnu, 1

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 1

  King, Martin Luther, 1

  Kipling, Rudyard, 1, 2

  kites, 1

  Knox-Johnston, Robin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Knoydart, 1

  Korea, 1

  Krakauer, Jon, 1, 2

  Kristeva, Julia, 1

  Kronos, 1

  Kyle of Lochalsh, 1

  Kylerhea, 1

  La Nouvelle Héloïse (Rousseau), 1

  Lacout, Pierre, 1

  Laggangairn standing stones, 1, 2

  Lake District, 1, 2, 3

  Lanarkshire, 1

  landscape, 1

  language, 1, 2, 3, 4

  and creation, 1, 2, 3

  and pauses, 1

  and reading, 1, 2

  and silence, 1, 2, 3, 4

  and the sun, 1

  women and, 1

  and Zen, 1

  Latin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  le Guin, Ursula, 1, 2

  lead mining, 1

  Leonardo da Vinci, 1

  Leppard, Tom, 1

  Lewis, C. S., 1

  libraries, 1

  lichens, 1

  Liddell and Scott’s Greek lexicon, 1

  lighthouse keepers, 1

  Lilith, 1

  Lindbergh, Charles, 1

  Lindisfarne, 1, 2, 3

  literacy, 1, 2

  literature

  and endings, 1

  genres of, 1

  Liverpool, 1

  Liverpool Cathedral, 1

  Loch Enoch, 1

  Loch Slapin, 1

  Loch Trool, 1

  Loki, 1

  London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  East End, 1, 2

  London time, 1

  London Labour and the London Poor

  (Mayhew), 1

  Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 1

  Lord’s Prayer, 1

  Lorrain, Claude, 1

  Los Angeles, 1

  Lowland Clearances, 1

  Luib, 1

  Luther, Martin, 1

  McArthur, Ellen, 1

  McCandless, Chris, 1, 2

  Macfarlane, Robert, 1

  Machars, the, 1

  madness, 1, 2

  Maid Marian, 1

  Mallory, George, 1, 2

  Mao Zedong, 1

  Maori creation story, 1

  Mar Saba monastery, 1

  Märchen (fairy tales), 1, 2

  Marguerite of Navarre, 1, 2

  marooning, 1, 2

  martyrdom, 1, 2

  Mary, mother of Jesus, 1
r />   masculinity, 1, 2

  Matthews, Peter, 1

  Mayhew, Henry, 1

  meditation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  zazen, 1

  Mediterranean, 1, 2

  Meher Baba, 1

  melancholy, 1

  Melrose, 1

  memory, 1, 2, 3

  textual, 1

  menopause, 1, 2

  Merck, Mandy, 1

  Merlin, 1

  Merrick, the, 1, 2, 3

  Merton, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Milan, 1

  Milton, John, 1

  Minch, the, 1

  mind, and silence, 1, 2

  Miner, Valerie, 1

  miniskirts, 1

  mobile phones, 1, 2, 3

  Moitessier, Bernard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  monasticism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Mont Blanc, 1

  ‘Mont Blanc’ (Shelley), 1

  Montaigne, Michel de, 1, 2

  Morocco, 1

  Moses, 1, 2

  Mount Athos, 1

  Mount Everest, 1, 2, 3

  Mount Hira, 1

  Mount Sinai, 1

  mountain madness, 1

  mountaineering, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Muckle Flugga, 1

  Muhammad ibn Abdullah, 1, 2

  Mull, 1

  Mull of Kintyre, 1

  Mulville, Frank, 1

  Munch, Edvard, 1

  music, 1, 2

  ‘music of the spheres’, 1

  musical notation, 1

  myths and traditional stories, 1, 2

  creation stories, 1

  Märchen (fairy tales), 1, 2

  and the sun, 1

  nationalism, 1, 2

  nature writing, 1

  navigation, 1

  Negev Desert, 1

  Nemo, Captain, 1

  New Luce, 1, 2

  New York state, 1

  New Zealand, 1, 2

  Newcastle, 1

  Newfoundland, 1

  Newton, Isaac, 1

  Nichols, Peter, 1, 2

  Nicolson, Adam, 1, 2, 3

  Nieve of the Spit, 1

  Nile, river, 1, 2, 3, 4

  noise

  ambient, 1

  sensitivity to, 1

  Norman Conquest, 1

  Norse mythology, 1, 2, 3

  North Africa, 1

  North America, 1

  North Lodge, 1, 2

  North Pole, 1

  North Sea, 1, 2

  Northamptonshire, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Northanger Abbey (Austen), 1

  Norway, 1

  novices, 1

  Orion, 1

  ornithology, 1, 2

  oronyms, 1

  osteoporosis, 1

  Other Voices, 1

  otters, 1

  Outer Hebrides, 1, 2, 3

  owls, 1, 2

  Oxford, 1, 2

  Oxford time, 1

  Oxford English Dictionary, Compact

  Edition, 1

  oxygen deprivation, 1

  Pacific Ocean, 1

  Paish, Karin, 1

  Palestine, 1, 2

  Pangu and the Yellow Emperor, 1

  panic, 1

  Paradise Lost (Milton), 1

  Paris, 1

  patriarchy, 1

  pauses, 1

  Peking, 1

  Pembroke College, 1

  Pennine Way, 1

  Pennines, 1, 2

  Persephone, 1

  Petronius, 1

  Phillips, Adam, 1

  Phillips, John, 1

  Picard, Max, 1, 2

  Picardy, 1

  Pinker, Steven, 1

  pirates, 1

  plainsong, 1, 2, 3

  planets, 1

  Plato, 1

  Pleiades, 1, 2

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1

  Poland, 1

  population density, 1, 2

  porpoises, 1, 2, 3

  porridge, 1, 2, 3

  Port Ellen, 1

  Portugal, 1

  prayer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  ‘apophatic’, 1, 2

  communal and silent, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Protestant, 1

  and psychoanalysis, 1

  Prebble, John, 1

  Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 1

  privacy, 1, 2

  Procne and Philomel, 1, 2

  Profumo affair, 1

  Prometheus, 1

  protest, silent, 1

  Protestantism, 1

  psalms, 1, 2, 3, 4

  psychoanalysis, 1, 2, 3, 4

  punctuation, 1

  Quakerism, 1

  Quebec, 1

  Quorr Abbey, 1

  rabbits, 1

  radio programmes, 1

  radios, 1, 2, 3

  rage, 1, 2

  Ragnarok, battle of, 1, 2

  railways, 1, 2

  ‘Rainbow, The’ (Wordsworth), 1

  Raphael, 1

  ‘rapture of the deep’ (depth narcosis), 1

  reading, 1, 2

  Reformation, 1, 2

  Reinhardswald, 1

  relationships, 1, 2

  religious communities, 1, 2, 3, 4

  see also monasticism

  Remembrance Sunday, 1

  Reoch, Elspeth, 1

  retreats, 1, 2, 3, 4

  rhetoric, 1

  Rhine, river, 1

  Rio Branco, Barão de, 1

  risk, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Ritter, Christiane, 1, 2, 3, 4

  rituals, 1

  and prayer, 1

  and remembrance, 1

  and the sun, 1

  Robert the Bruce, 1

  Roberts, Michèle, 1

  Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Roman Catholicism, 1, 2, 3

  Roman Catholics, on Islay, 1

  Romans, 1, 2, 3, 4

  romanticism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  and identity, 1

  Rome, 1, 2

  Romulus and Remus, 1

  Room of One’s Own, A (Woolf), 1

  Rothko, Mark, 1

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1, 2

  Rowland, Christopher, 1

  Royal Navy, 1

  ‘Rumpelstiltskin’, 1, 2

  Ruskin College, 1

  Russia, 1

  Sababurg Castle, 1

  Sabine women, rape of, 1

  sacraments, 1

  Sahara Desert, 1, 2

  sailors and sailing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  St Andrew’s, 1

  St Anthony, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  St Athanasius, 1, 2, 3, 4

  St Augustine, 1, 2, 3

  St Basil the Great, 1

  St Bede, 1, 2

  St Benedict, 1, 2, 3, 4

  St Bernadette of Lourdes, 1

  St Boniface, 1

  St Bridget of Sweden, 1

  St Catherine of Siena, 1, 2, 3

  St Columba, 1, 2

  St Cuthbert, 1, 2, 3, 4

  St Helena, 1

  St Hilda of Whitby, 1

  St Jerome, 1

  St John Cassian, 1, 2, 3, 4

  St John of the Cross, 1

  St John the Baptist, 1

  St Kenneth, 1

  St Kilda, 1, 2

  St Lawrence seaway, 1

  St Mary of Egypt, 1

  St Ninian, 1

  St Paul, 1, 2, 3, 4

  St Romuald, 1

  St Teresa of Avila, 1, 2

  St Thérèse of Lisieux, 1, 2

  saints, women, 1, 2

  San Francisco, 1

  Satan, 1, 2, 3

  Satyrica (Petronius), 1

  Saudi Arabia, 1

  Sayers, Dorothy, 1

  Sayings of the Desert Fathers, The 1, 2, 3, 4

  Scandinavia, 1

  Scafell Pike, 1

  Schama, Simon, 1

  scholasticism, 1

  science, 1

  Scilly Isles, 1

  Scotland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  and Christianity, 1

  forests, 1,
2

  south-west, 1, 2

  witch trials, 1

  Scottish Highlands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Scottish islands, 1, 2

  Screwtape Letters, The (Lewis), 1

  scripta continua, 1

  seals, 1

  Selborne, 1

  Selkirk, Alexander, 1, 2, 3

  sensory deprivation, 1, 2

  sex, 1, 2, 3

  sexual abuse, 1

  Shakespeare, William, 1

  Sharm el Sheikh, 1

  sheep, 1, 2, 3

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1, 2, 3

  Shetland Isles, 1

  Shiant Isles, 1, 2

  shopping malls, 1

  sign language, 1, 2, 3, 4

  silence

  and boundary confusions, 1, 2, 3

  communal, 1

  and danger, 1

  definition of, 1, 2

  and disinhibition, 1, 2, 3, 4

  and the divine, 1, 2

  early accounts of, 1

  eremitical silence, 1, 2

  fear of, 1, 2, 3

  and free choice, 1, 2

  and ‘givenness’, 1, 2

  and God, 1

  interior dimension of, 1

  and joy, 1

  and lack, 1

  and mental illness, 1

  and natural phenomena, 1

  and oppression, 1

  and organic growth, 1, 2

  personification of, 1

  and physical forces, 1

  and physical sensations, 1, 2, 3

  and risk, 1, 2

  and screaming, 1

  and secrets, 1

  and selfishness, 1

  and solitude, 1, 2

  ‘sound of silence’, 1, 2

  and spiritual development, 1, 2

  and time, 1

  and transmitter/receptor problem, 1

  trial by, 1

  types of, 1, 2, 3

  and visual austerity, 1

  and voices, 1, 2

  volumes of, 1

  vows of, 1, 2

  and weaning, 1, 2