"Beethoven: his hearing ailment is curable today." Beethoven's deafness, over which he initially contemplated suicide, is today attributed to otosclerosis: the progressive formation of tough, spongy tissue around the stirrup bone in the middle ear, which hinders movement of the tympanic membrane. #bookstagram #book #books #reading #reader #bookworm #literature #panatisextraordinaryendingsofpracticallyeverythingandeverybody #illustration #blackandwhite #morbid #creepy














