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Snide, issue 2, February 1941
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way to clear the money and himself would be to report it stolen. See? Very simple.' 'Yes,' was the dry retort, 'but how is it you can hear plants and not hear me?' 'I don't know,' said John frankly, 'I'll have to ask the fern.' A soft sigh came from the pot. 'The daisy can explain it much better.' 'Simple,' remarked the daisy. 'When the gong slipped this morning, the ensuing tone was stepped up so high by those resonators that it shriveled the end [of?] [your?] [basilar?] membrane in your cochlea. You know that the wider the end, the more deep tones you can hear. Well, just reverse is true of the narrow end. The membrane is wedge-shaped, wide at one end, narrow at the other. The noise you produced was so powerful it shriveled the entire membrane, thus increasing your range of high tones and decreasing your low tone range. 'We plants are able to converse with each other through sound which is very high. As it happened, the sounds just came into your range. We 'talk' through vibrations we send to each other, thus you have the hearing of a plant. You will be able to understand the vibrations of the majority of our groups, but you'll never understand your own race. 'Where did you learn so much about human anatomy?' asked John. 'The daisies are favorites for experiments in science labs, and we have picked up quite a good deal of information.' 'But how can you 'talk' so I can understand you?' John got the impression that had the 43
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way to clear the money and himself would be to report it stolen. See? Very simple.' 'Yes,' was the dry retort, 'but how is it you can hear plants and not hear me?' 'I don't know,' said John frankly, 'I'll have to ask the fern.' A soft sigh came from the pot. 'The daisy can explain it much better.' 'Simple,' remarked the daisy. 'When the gong slipped this morning, the ensuing tone was stepped up so high by those resonators that it shriveled the end [of?] [your?] [basilar?] membrane in your cochlea. You know that the wider the end, the more deep tones you can hear. Well, just reverse is true of the narrow end. The membrane is wedge-shaped, wide at one end, narrow at the other. The noise you produced was so powerful it shriveled the entire membrane, thus increasing your range of high tones and decreasing your low tone range. 'We plants are able to converse with each other through sound which is very high. As it happened, the sounds just came into your range. We 'talk' through vibrations we send to each other, thus you have the hearing of a plant. You will be able to understand the vibrations of the majority of our groups, but you'll never understand your own race. 'Where did you learn so much about human anatomy?' asked John. 'The daisies are favorites for experiments in science labs, and we have picked up quite a good deal of information.' 'But how can you 'talk' so I can understand you?' John got the impression that had the 43
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