Thoughts on Medusa

“Call
it what you like: you look at things as they are.”

“Ah—I’ve
had to. I’ve had to look at the Gorgon.”

“Well—it
hasn’t blinded you! You’ve seen that she’s just an old bogey
like all the others.”

“She doesn’t blind one; but she dries up one’s tears.”

–from The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton.