If we propose to ourselves to “think about nothing,” we find we have engaged in a very difficult exercise. It does not seem to be quite the same as “not thinking about anything.” “Nothing” seems to remain nothing only as long as we refrain from thinking about it; any active thought is apt to turn it into a “sort of something” — it acquires, in fact, precisely that vague and disquieting sort of reality that we are accustomed to associate with the minus signs in algebra.
Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker, p. 98
This is part of a discussion of how evil could come to be, in a good universe created by a good God.
Out of Babel 
Yep, as soon as free will/choice is created, evil is now possible.
Which lots of people conveniently forget.
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Yes, and the analogy was interesting about the bunghole being part of the barrel, but without the barrel it doesn’t exist.
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Wow, you are powering through that!
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Lawrence Krauss, in his proposal for the origin of the universe in “A Universe from Nothing,” seems to have solved the problem by neglecting to think about what he was actually proposing.
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buuuuurrrrn
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Tangential to this, a few years ago, I wanted to figure out what I heard when there was nothing to hear. Which is how I found out about my tinnitus.
Sigh. Good quote.
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I guess you were hoping for nature sounds, your pulse, or something like that?
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