Oh my, I and everyone else but the lucky few, we are surrounded by glass. Melted silicon fill the holes in the walls, silver-backed they line ceilings, dressers, boudoirs. Glass-topped tables in velveteen lounges. Glass-bottomed boats in crystalline waters. Glasses on faces and on lips. The glass of camera lenses, television screens, the sintered ceramics of lamps, bowls, vases. Leaden paperweights and featherweight pendants.

Is there no escape from such transparency?