NITCH

Photo of Paul Auster

Paul Auster // "You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as you move among your fellow human beings...your own face is invisible to you. You see other parts of yourself, arms and legs, hands and feet...but never your face, and in the end...as far as others are concerned...your face is who you are... Even you, who have lived inside your body...would probably be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to speak of your ear, or your elbow...All so familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves..."