A rumbling train heading to the final station is a journey’s end.
Turning off the lights and going to sleep is a day’s end.

Folding up light outfits and putting them into storage is summer’s end.
Crowds cheer on New Year’s Eve to bring in the year’s end.

Relatives and friends crying at the bedside sounds out a life at its end.
Eternal silence is the universe’s end.

-Kwong Wing Ka

MicroCasting is a series of outreach programmes conceived by The Library by soundpocket. At that day, we sat on the central lawn of Jordan Valley Park, turned on the speakers, listened to and shared different types of “end” in our lives with new friends we have just met.

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火車隆隆的駛向終站，這是行程的盡頭。
噠的一聲關上燈睡去，這是一天的盡頭。

把薄衣服摺疊收好，這是夏季的盡頭。
在擁擠的人群中倒數歡呼，這是一年的盡頭。

親友們在床邊的飲泣聲，這是生命的盡頭。
永恆的沉默，這是宇宙的盡頭。

– 鄺永嘉

<耳朵外展計劃>是由聲音圖書館策劃的系列活動。那天我們與幾位素不相識的朋友，在佐敦谷公園中央草坪上，開著小喇叭，彼此分享﹑聆聽生活裡每個大大小小的「盡頭」。