da pele e da voz

"In this sense the very sick or the dying person is much like a child: he cannot tell us how he feels, but he is absorbing our feeling, our voice, and, most of all, our touch. In the infant the greatest channel of communication is the skin. Similarly, for the individual plunged in the immense solitude of sickness and death, the touch of a hand can dispel that solitude, even warmly illuminate that unknown universe. To the "nobly born" as to the "nobly dying", skin and voice communication may make an immeasurable difference."
Laura Huxley, in This Timeless Moment