"I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase my communication in terms of a human body. To say: let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken."

Source : "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection". Book edited by Gardner Dozois, July 3, 2012.

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