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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Vernor Vinge
Hair, Voice, Scalpels
Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.