And after a toxic insult, they are gone. This is what the inner ear of a person who is deaf looks like.

受到损伤后，毛细胞没了，耳朵失聪的人的内耳就是这幅摸样。

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I never met anybody who seemed more like an author than this person, and yet he's raising the question whether there is any such thing, or in any case, the question how difficult it is to decide what it is if there is.

我从来没有遇见过比他看起来更像作家的人，现在他提出了一个问题，问无论如何，如果有这么个东西的话那么决定它是什么有多难。

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