For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long gone, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means "place where I have collected passages from the most important books I have read." These passages hold some of the most crucial secrets in this sad and flammable world. ("Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography")
...the outer gaze alters the inner thing, that by looking at an object we destroy it with out desire, that for accurate vision to occur the thing must be trained to see itself, or otherwise perish in blindness, flawed. (Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String, pp. 3-4)
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