I find sunglasses on others make me, uncomfortably, dwell on myself – looking for some kind of interaction all I see is my own seeking reflection.

I wear them frequently, of course.

Oh, thanks. I tend to think of that as almost a cliched move for me — creating persective by moving beyond the merely human — but that is the way I think about these things. (And I do have a bit of a mouse problem.)

That may be. But those who wear sunglasses almost force us to dwell upon their superficialies.

Thanks, Lucy. Maybe an audiobook is the right way to take it in. I read Robert Pinsky’s translation a few years back and enjoyed it very much as poetry, but the worldview is so completely repellent to me, I was never able to persist and read the rest of the Divine Comedy.

Really? Interesting. Thanks.

(I’ve just started listening to Heathcote Williams reading ‘The Divine Comedy’ too.)