These
are Aesop’s eyes:
This
is Aesop’s brain:
Aesop’s eyes are connected to Aesop’s brain
by two cords called “optic nerves.” This
is a good set-up and it works pretty well for the most part, all things
considered, except that at the place where the optic nerves connect to each
eye, Aesop cannot see.
Don’t feel too bad for Aesop, though. At the place
where each of your optic nerves connects
to your eyes, you cannot see, either. And Abraham Lincoln could not see anything
at those places on his eyes. And neither Leonardo da Vinci. Why, even Kanye
West himself cannot see anything at that place at the back of each eye where his
optic nerves connect.
Kanye
West!
(Please do not tell him I told you this.)
