What is the sound of one hand clapping?

I take attendance by asking the students a question.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

As before, many students picked onomatopoeias:

• swish
• poof
• shmrshmrshmrshmr
• boom skrrt
• clap
• bloooop
• whoosh!
• cloooop

Others chose to describe it in other ways:

• little air molecules getting pushed off to adventure
• magnificent
• jazz hands
• sound of hand and face clapping
• like Pacman
• nothing
• the sound of silence
• a very faint buzzing

Still others used their response to issue a protest against the question:

• What is the sound of a tree falling in the woods when no one is there to hear it?
• the answer to zen riddles must be spontaneous, and I've already heard this one
• inconceivable!
• clap, otherwise it wouldn't be clapping.

This week's Melancholy Monument has a plaque at the base engraved in honor of the various students who wrote, "the sadness of a missed high five", "the sound of sadness", and simply, "sad".

This post's theme word is krummholz, "stunted trees near the timber line on a mountain." The clumsy hermit's logging expedition near the krummholz avoided people but resulted in a lifelong lack of a left hand.