Those cheating eyes




Because I didn't want to wear glasses, I cheated at the school eye-test: I memorised the text of the small-print reading test. It went like this...

Hope, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence. From first to last...


Years afterwards, those words were still with me. But where did they come from? Thanks to a search engine and an e-text, I now know the answer: the opening words of Chapter II of Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson. Isn't technology marvellous. Oh, and er, yes - I do now wear glasses!





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