noise (n.) [...] apparently from Latin nausea "disgust, annoyance, discomfort," literally "seasickness"

A child in the dark, gripped with fear, comforts himself by singing under his breath. [...] Lost, he takes shelter, or orients himself with his little song as best as he can. [...] home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. The forces of chaos are kept outside [...] This involves an activity of selection, elimination and extraction [...]