I have this fear. I am so myopic that, without glasses, the hand I see at the end of my arm is blurred. What if I were to find myself one day in some bad place—in a prison or some kind of detention camp, say, or forced to flee for my life—and then somehow I lost my glasses, or they got broken or taken away? What then? I mentioned this once to some guests at a party and everyone cracked up. As if anything like that could ever happen to you! But think of all the people in the world to whom this has already happened, including the many who thought it never could.
