Who are you? What’s your name?”“ Mi Mi.”“Do you hear that thumping noise?”“ No.”“ It must be here somewhere.” Tin Win knelt down. Now it was nearly next to his ear. “I hear it more and more distinctly. A soft pulsing. You really don’t hear it?”“ No.”“ Close your eyes.” Mi Mi closed her eyes. “Nothing, ” she said, and laughed. Tin Win leaned over and felt her breath on his face. “I think it’s coming from you.” He crept closer to her and held his head just in front of her chest. There it was. Her heartbeat. . JanPhilipp Sendker
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The quote "Who are you? What's your name? … Mi Mi" is from a short story called “The Heart of the Blue Sky” by the Polish writer Wislawa Szymborska. In this short story, a young girl goes looking for her heart. She finds it, but it is dead and her name is “Mi Mi.” When she realizes what she has found, she asks the question “Who are you?” The answer she gets is “I am a dead heart.” The dead heart represents the idea of an old, worn out heart that no longer pumps blood and keeps one alive. “Do you hear that thumping noise?” is a line from the same short story, in which the heart asks another person what they hear.

Source: The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats

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