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The human tongue is like the songbox of birds or the blowholes of dolphins. Nature, finding opportunity in the pliancy of anatomy, endowed these humble organs with the magic of expressiveness and the body began to talk.
Minds used to be more like islands lacking bridges between them. We traveled from the shore of one island to the shore of another only with great frustration and always with an unshakable sense that there was much left unexplored. There was always a between between us. Then tongue-turning turned into language, fashioning a magic carpet from the fabric of our mouths and now we are able to fly effortlessly from one mind to another, vaulting the murky waters that once isolated our souls.