Quote from Nietzsche, “Glass Eye.— A gift for moral subjects, characters, motives directed upon the beautiful soul of a work of art is sometimes only the glass eye which the artist who lacks a beautiful soul inserts into himself: the consequence can be, though rarely is, that this eye at length becomes living nature, even if somewhat jaundiced nature—the usual consequence, however, is that all the world thinks it sees nature where there is only glass” (Human All Too Human, bk. 2, sec. 151)
People call them Mice–People think that they are all of the same kind– Because they come from other creatures of the same kind
People think they live in or near places where people live–Because they want to eat things that people keep for people to eat–People don’t want them to live there.
A Person could hold one easily in one hand– (most people wouldn’t want to hold them).
They have short legs–because of this when they move you can’t see their legs moving and it seems as if their whole body touches the ground.
Their head looks as if it were not a separate part of the body– The whole body looks like one small thing with a long thin hairless tail–It has a few stiff hairs sticking out sideways–There are two round ears sticking up one on each side of the head–They have small sharp teeth that they bite things with. - Wierzbicka
