The Eyes Have It
12 August 2004

Douglas Milburn

1. To opened eyes the common ivy on my desk’s beauty infinitely exceeds any gem-hued Condé-Nast sea and beach and palms’ or Aspen cabin’s.

2. If Glenn Gould’s fingers had had eyes, imagine what pictures he’d have left us.

3. Through them we know the world comes in, but what, smart science, goes out those winsome windows?

4. Asked how to deal with Hitler, Gandhi said hurl bodies at Germany’s borders till in self-disgust he stops the killing; rather than hurl bodies in the tyrant’s maw, see first, then build inward-reflecting fortresses round his mind’s eye, letting his own sun burn away carbuncles and ancient cataracts.

5. One day probably Neanderthal wandered into the cave at Lascaux and what, think you, saw he?

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