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two flesh satellites that never blink, never close, and snitch on every whisper
means the pair of organs on either side of your head that pick up sound and help you keep your balance.
from From Old English ēare, the word traces back to Proto-Germanic *auzon and beyond to a Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ews-, the same ancient source that gave Latin auris (hence 'auricle' and 'auditory') and Greek ous. So the German Ohr, the Dutch oor, and the Latin auris are all distant cousins, all naming the same sound-catcher. The cereal sense — an 'ear' of corn — is a different word entirely, from Old English ēar meaning a spike of grain, an unrelated lookalike that drifted into the same spelling.
- never rest
- They keep working while you sleep
- balance HQ
- Inner ear controls standing without falling
- self-cleaning
- Earwax migrates outward like a slow conveyor belt
- unique shape
- Ear contours are as identifiable as fingerprints
- tiny bones
- Smallest bone in your body lives here
van gogh's severed ear — vincent van gogh cut off part of his own left ear in arles, france in 1888
elephant ears — african elephants have ears up to 6 feet long that cover 20% of their body surface
fennec fox ears — fennec foxes have ears 6 inches long on a 14-inch body, used to dissipate heat in the sahara