purse-pective

'If you were blind you would hardly have fallen in love

in the first place. But now, do you truly wish to see

the beloved in the cold clarity of the visual

apparatus? It may be in your better interest to throw

a veil over the gaze, so as to keep her alive in her

archetypal, goddesslike form'

- Prof. David Lurie in a passage from Disgraced, JM Coetzee