Milky quietude sounds like something to be welcomed, whereas a curdling whey of silence is to be escaped. I like this double latte metaphor, turning over two sides of quietness.
‘A milky quietude ensued. The whey of silence curdled.’
Source: Osip Mandelstam, Journey to Armenia (London: Notting Hill Editions, 2011), p. 97
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