Open City  by Teju Cole "For Paracelsus, the light of nature functioned intuitively, but it was also sharpened by experience. . .  it informed us what the inner reality of a thing was by means of its form, so that the appearance of a man gave some valid Reflection of the person he really was."  (p 237) “To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both