“Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.”
Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) Mauritian artist
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“Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.”
— Annie Proulx, book The Shipping News
Source: The Shipping News (1993), P. 53
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