Why do you put pins on them?
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CriticalThinking
Published: 23.09.2010

We have a history of poking things in holes, of putting fingers into and through holes — orifices and others, of prizing through sphinctea, of playing with (caressing, fiddling, twisting, wringing) our own fingers, as well as those of others. Apparently, a long history. Apes do it. As things with finger sized holes, rings insist that we engage with that history. What is a ring without a finger? What is a finger without a hole?
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