And without going so far as to say I saw the world upside down (that would have been too easy) it is certain I saw it in a way inordinately formal, though I was far from being an aesthéte, or an artist. And of my two eys one one functioning more or less correctly, I misjudged the distance seperating me from the other world, and often I stretched out my hand for what was far beyond my reach, and often I knocked against obstacles scarcely visible on the horizon.