• The German author Goethe wrote: Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their true image. •【歌德写道:行为是一面镜子,反射出每一个人真实的自我。】 • One of the deep secrets of life is all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. ——Lewis Carroll •【路易...
Other allusions surfaced as well. I noted them in a journal I’d starting keeping during this period. The great, blind giants of the literary canon—Homer, Milton, Jorge Luis Borges, Goethe’s Faust—for what did eye cancer lead to if not blindness? That was my soon-to-be new reality...