Eduardo Galeano. 1944: New York Learning To See. From The Portable Lower East Side. Volume five. Numbers one and two. It is noon and James Baldwin is walking with a friend through the streets of downtown Manhattan. A red light stops them. "Look" says the friend, pointing at the ground. Baldwin looks. He sees nothing. "Look,look." Nothing. There is nothing to look at but a filthy little pool of water against the curb. His friend insists:" See? Are you seeing?" And then Baldwin takes a good look and this time he sees, sees a spot of oil spreading in the pool. Then, in the spot of oil, a rainbow, and even deeper down in the pool, the street moving, and people moving in the street: the shipwrecked, the madmen, the magicians, the whole world moving, an astounding world full of worlds that glow in the world. Baldwin sees. For the first time in his life, he sees.