are we all Matilda?

Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes...' [Hilaire Belloc] Last week my right eyelid was swollen and drooped over the eye (my sight, fortunately, was fine just obscured). Curious. Plantain and turmeric poultice applied under a patch. Right eye got a rest. So my other eye was 'single'. And it prompted two 'in-sights'.. how much my gaze online is pulled towards speculating on the merely human or ai-related or ai-generated (the latter of which I've got caught twice now on mistaking for the 'real' thing). In all cases I'm ignoring the more-than-human and elemental. how much of our vocabulary and world relates to sight: 'speculation', 'insight' 'I look forward to..' etc... See what I mean?! And I think - but may be wrong - ai relies mainly on 'visually' communicated code and language? After an hour's ai-related doom-scrolling (largely via Diary of a DOAC) the night before, hooked by click-bait titles, I felt all this speculating is short-sighted. On…