A hush. The night frogs and the night birds were perfectly silent.
у Геймана в "Anansi Boys" все разруливается посредством звуков.

Spider said, "So. Um. What exactly do we do now?"
"We sing to them," said Charlie, simply.
"What?"
"It’s how we fix things. I figured it out. We just sing it all, you and I."

Charlie filled his lungs, and he began to sing. [...]
He sang the world.

и вообще звуков очень, подчеркнуто много. на них основной фокус.

Apart from the crash of the waves on breakers behind and far below him, he heard nothing, only silence. But a specific kind of silence. There are many kinds of silences. Graves have their own silence, space has its silence, mountaintops have theirs. This was a hunting silence. It was a stalking silence. In this silence something moved on velvet-soft pads, with muscles like steel springs coiled beneath soft fur; something the color of shadows in the long grass; something that would ensure that you heard nothing it did not wish you to hear. It was a silence that was moving from side to side in front of him, slowly and relentlessly, and with every arc it was getting closer.

"You will bleat," she said. "You will whimper. Your fear will excite him."

An impatient rustling; the swish-swish of a tail; a roar, half-muffled in the back of a throat.

там есть такая Bird Woman, магическая повелительница птичьего племени, так вот она разговаривает все время не открывая рта, её слова складываются из "криков далеких птиц":

"Now," she said in the cries of distant birds. "Now your death begins."

It was hard to tell, in the firefly light, but Charlie did not believe that her lips had moved. Her words surrounded him, however, in the cries of nightjars, and in the owls’ shrieks and hoots.

(в небезызвестном Thunder Perfect Mind, ср.:
"I am the voice whose sound is manifold
and the word whose appearance is multiple
I am the utterance of my name.")

все разруливается посредством звуков. а тому, что видишь, напротив, нельзя доверять: в сюжете есть, например, как минимум два поворотных момента, когда влюбленный человек принимает за того, кого он любит(!), кого-то совершенно другого. а потом не понимает, как могло так получиться, "они же совсем не похожи".