As the reader’s eye strays, with hearty relief, from these pages, it probably alights on something, a bed-post or a lamp-post, a window blind or a wall. It is a thousand to one that the reader is looking at something he has never seen: that is, never realized…None of us think enough of these things, on which the eye rests. But don’t let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see the startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be ocular athletes.
G.K. Chesterton, from the Preface to Tremendous Trifles
