The Importance of Seeing

The smallest object in the toy palace was a silver needle no thicker than a hair. The maker of miniatures yearned for a world so small that he could not yet imagine it. He longed to construct objects so small that they would escape the power of the mediating glass, remained submerged in the dark kingdom of the invisible. As he worked on his palace, the craving grew in him and he seemed to sense dimly just out of reach beyond his inner sight a farther kingdom.