"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den."
That is deep!
Out of the entire reading, that's the only thing that made complete sense. I do not have time to re-read the story trying to understand it because maybe the story was never meant to be understood...I don't know. All I know is that this story is very weirdly written and is very long and I literally thought it was my fault until I took a break and came back only to realize that it takes a lot of mind power to understand half of what is being said. And English is not my "mother tongue" so if you want me to understand something, please put it in modern english, that is the English I learned. Thank you :-)
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