Theme Thursday: Do You Hear What I Hear?

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Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
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This week's theme is Hear--Listen, or any action do with the ear:
Here's mine from Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City by Anna Quindlen (p. 58):

...my free time was spent wandering aimlessly through the streets of London, from Covent Garden through the West end, along the Strand and down to the Thames. Listening to the half-slurry, half-sharp intonations of the average English accent, passing a group of city types ranged outside the crammed entryway of a pub, taking the vertiginous escalators down into the Underground and then up again, all while moving from monument to monument--it was just as I'd imagined and then some.