EYESEE Five essays, each built on a single line of Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations get quoted constantly and read almost never; EYESEE does the reverse — I take one passage at a time and work it until it says something precise about how we see, judge, and misread each other. The first essay sits with his image of the "diseased eye," the mind that flinches from whatever it's asked to look at squarely. An old text handled as a live argument, not a keepsake.