Proximally to the ligament this exposes the languette of the palmar fascia. Some of the fibres of this languette which pierce the subcutaneous layer system are demonstrated.

My overall impression, though, is quite simply that [Stephen] Spender is still a poet who will not forsake the image, the object, will not intrusively go beyond what he believes the words are trying to say, and insists on finding similarities within existences that consequently not only reveal a philosophy but just as appropriately reveal a penetrating intellect that is receptive and analytical without anything resembling an offensive egotrajectory, and humble without tolerating the succumbency to anything resembling those Californian and New Yorkian trends in the modern adultery of words.

The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

As a result of a childhood accident, my sister was hearing-impaired and had to wear a hearing aid.