Now, there is a law written in the darkest of the Books Of Life, and it is this:

If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe;

if you look at it the thousandth time,

you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon Of Notting Hill (1904) I.1

To JEB, for the gift of new eyes