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boundaries, inner ear, love, short story, stirrup bone, tale
“The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone, located in the ear,” I said, while leaning against you and looking away towards the horizon.
“Is that so?” you replied, comfortably abstracted, occupied with something invisible in the middle distance.
“Yes, it’s the bone that quivers with sound and moves it from the outside of you to the inside,” I said. “I think it is a translator.”
“How so?” you said. “How can a bone translate?”
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