silence of the heart

attention customers, if you are looking for the silence of the heart, please come to the red room. i repeat, if you were the customer looking for silence of the heart, please come to the red room. when i heard "silence of the heart" i immediately thought of being sucked out of a spaceship's airlock and into the cold airless blackness of deep space, which is a little scary unless you are a hardcore buddhist who has stared a fathomless hole into your mind from years & years of sitting in front of blank walls, but wouldn't you prefer the heart to be a warm, candlelit room with lots of throw rugs & shaggy carpeting & fluffy pillows where you can read or watch movies with friends & eat pizza? why not pizza of the heart? so then i decided to google silence of the heart & discovered an 80's afterschool special by that name starring charlie sheen as the best friend of a high school student who drove his car off a cliff because he was doing poorly in school and which ends with his mother standing on the cliff's edge telling the viewers that "it's better to live," which is usually true. it is better to live, most of the time.