Begin Again

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Andre Gide

The site, Nemours KidsHealth , has a palatable overview about our ears and how they work . The outer ear, made up of the pinna (the part of the ear we see) and ear canal collect, the sounds. The middle ear contains the eardrum, or tympanic membrane, where sounds cause the thin membrane to move. (The Eustachian tube connects the middle ear to the back of the nose and helps the pressure in the ears to remain in balance.) The inner ear contains the cochlea which converts the middle ear’s vibrations into nerve signals passed to the brain via the auditory nerve. And, voila! We hear.

About the author

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide’s career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. Author of more than 50 books, he was described in his New York Times obituary as “France’s greatest contemporary man of letters” and “judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti.”