optical quotes

Le vers est la forme optique de la pense  e.Voila'   pourquoi il convient surtout a'   la perspective sce  nique. Verse is the optical form of thought. That is the reason a scenic perspective suits it.

-Victor Marie Hugo
  Cromwell, pre  face.

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Self-Consciousness,VI.'On Being A Self Forever'.