Here is the bag-maker's reaction to his first close scrutiny of the woman's heart: "I wanted to run my fingertips over each tiny bump and furrow, touch my lips to the veins, soft tissue on soft tissue, the pressure of her pulse against my skin".
I wanted to run my fingertips over each tiny bump and furrow, touch my lips to the veins, soft tissue on soft tissue, the pressure of her pulse against my skin… I could easily lose myself to these thoughts, but I knew I had to keep this desire in check, had to play my role and make the perfect bag for this heart.
The iris' tiny flecks, rifts and furrows make it more uniquely individual than a fingerprint.
"Ew," said Ankle, furrowing her upturned, tiny nose.
The mouth is small and gently arched, with deep furrows at the corners and a tiny projection at the center of the upper jaw that fits into an indentation on the lower jaw.
The peridium is 0.2 0.4 mm thick, and the surface texture ranges from relatively smooth to covered with tiny "hairs" that are more dense in the furrows, and more scattered on the exposed lobes.
A tiny camera atop the computer will register the slight furrow of the brow, the smile, the tilt of the head and the eye movements that indicate attention, nervousness, satisfaction.
But utility companies, whether water, gas, oil or electric, regularly send out troops to dodge maniacal dogs and inadvertently furrow lawns in their quest to read tiny dials on meters that are often underground or hidden in crawl spaces.
Watch for longer, though, and you start to notice the intricacy involved – the way a ploughman has to make endless tiny mechanical adjustments to his plough to ensure the furrows are straight and tidy, no weeds poking through.
Seen through a laser scanning microscope that reveals 3D structure, the tiny objects (shown) sport perforated outer walls with a single furrow, reminiscent of ancestral angiosperms.
