"The Sound of Silence"

In the title song Simon & Garfunkel proclaimed that "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls." During and after our last election a local writer taped a hand written sign on the white tiles in the Union Square subway station "Express yourself!" This urging to practice "free speech" resulted in thousands of sticky notes being posted on the walls and many are being preserved by the New York Historical Society. Some samples:
-Doubt is a sign of your intelligence.
-A candle loses nothing by lighting another.
-Maybe it's time to get to know the other half of the country.
tjs
Ref. - Signs of hope:Messages from Subway therapy (Bloomsbury) Matthew Chavez.