I see what you did there, C.S. Lewis.

…You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ forever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window is transparent, because the street or garden beyond is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too?… a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.
C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man.

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