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"Una de ellas, lanzada con mayor precisión, rozó la espalda de Gregorio, pero no le hizo daño. En cambio, la siguiente le dio de lleno. Gregorio intentó correr, como si pudiese liberarse del insoportable dolor cambiando de sitio; pero era como si le hubieran clavado donde estaba, y quedó allí indefenso, sin noción de cuanto sucedía a su alrededor" [Franz Kafka]

"It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination --either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways. By sight I have the ideas of light and colours, with their several degrees and variations. By touch I perceive hard and soft, heat and cold, motion and resistance, and of all these more and less either as to quantity or degree. Smelling furnishes me with odours; the palate with tastes; and hearing conveys sounds to the mind in all their variety of tone and composition. And as several of these are observed to accompany each other, they come to be marked by one name, and so to be reputed as one thing. Thus, for example a certain colour, taste, smell, figure and consistence having b...