page_0: "My dear Braunstein... or should I say von Braunstein?

I hear you are on the verge of a breakthrough with your eye-beam experiment. Your diligence in this minor field is commendable, what with media attention so consistently gravitating to greater triumphs. I refer in this case to the Merkel somatoscope, whose readings of space braille are already turning out interpretable results. Expect some such headline in the Troubadour: \"Keen-eyed astrographers decrypt firmament. All lesser sciences defunded.\"

What perspective it will throw upon those slavish myopics who widen the City's sinkholes with their neurotic fantasies! They would do well to concede my dictum, \"Kruppe's Proclamation\": seeing for the first time our true insignificance in this endless beach of braille, we should reconsider all knowledge as sophistry and forever abandon the quest to become Ocular Superiors.

The Superiors themselves put it much the same: \"You will never see what you are blind to, but trust me - it's a lot\".

Kind regards,

Liunos Kruppe
Chief Astrographer, and soon to be Ocular Superior
Helodine Observatory"