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I was downstairs, reading."" Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared."Yes, now," she said. "It's nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark and soft-looking outside the window, all the stars out. You have just on light on, you know, and it seems to pour onto the page. Makes the book seem better. You are this little island, just up alone with a book. And you heard the night sounds of the house...It's so interesting to me, that sound. Time. The measure of it.

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Who are you? What__ your name?___i Mi.___o you hear that thumping noise?___o.___t must be here somewhere._ Tin Win knelt down. Now it was nearly next to his ear. __ hear it more and more distinctly. A soft pulsing. You really don__ hear it?___o.___lose your eyes.__i Mi closed her eyes. __othing,_ she said, and laughed. Tin Win leaned over and felt her breath on his face. __ think it__ coming from you._ He crept closer to her and held his head just in front of her chest.There it was. Her heartbeat.

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Jan-Philipp Sendker

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

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Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other words, of sounds and pauses._ Communication may be made in broken words, the business of life be carried on with substantives alone; but that is not what we call literature; and the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself; so that each sentence, by successive phrases, shall first come into a kind of knot, and then, after a moment of suspended meaning, solve and clear itself.-ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Essays in the Art of Writing