Our Whole Body is a Mirror

Everything is made through images. They enter us through all the other senses, as through the eye. An echo (they say) is an image of the voice. All our affections are produced by images of touching. Our whole body is a mirror.

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster
The Drowned Library

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