Gotta hand it to ya

I have some kind of either tiny ingrown hair or tiny splinter on the right side of my middle finger, on the middle bone. I tried to use scissors and tweezers to get it out, but it's too small. But I keep rubbing it with my thumb, over and over, and it's a very distinct point.

Reminded me of the sensory homunculus I saw many years ago on The Body In Question, with brilliant Jewish Brit theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humorist, sculptor, medical doctor and atheist* Jonathan Miller.

This is the male body, to scale, based on the amount of nerve endings it holds. No wonder that finger thing bothers me.

*Doesn't it seem as if there are a disproportionate number of actively atheist Jews?
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