Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someones finger as long as one pleases but looking into the eyes of another person is if prolonged past a second a perilous affair

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someones finger as long as one pleases but looking into the eyes of another person is if prolonged past a second a perilous affair
Walker Percy

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It is possible however that the artist is both thinskinned and prophetic and like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air has caught a whiff of something lethal.
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....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it why couldnt anyone do anything he or she wished given the tools and the time.
- Walker Percy

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someones finger as long as one pleases but looking into the eyes of another person is if prolonged past a second a perilous affair Walker Percy

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someones finger as long as one pleases but looking into the eyes of another person is if prolonged past a second a perilous affair
Walker Percy