Billeter’s persistent tout in “Is it so quiet here?” is the dead-pan hammock of assertions, commenting on the stillness of the land: “To speak into such a stillness is to blemish it”; and “Words fall into these sounds as fallen bodies” (all uttered in Billeter’s heavy dulciloquent Swiss accent, the dragée for the surface seriousness), the latter supposing a primeval state of tranquil sonancy[…]

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Four patients had 1-level hemicorpectomy using a minimally invasive expandable tubular retractor system (X-TUBE, METRX, Medtronic, USA) with a short construct instrumentation using Longitude FNS system (Medtronic, USA) augmented with a screw on the index level contralateral to the corpectomy approach and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) was injected to through all screws (Figures 1(e) and 1(f) ).