- "But this window is my comfort; it is here that life in all its colour has been revealed to me anew, and I feel at
home with its incessant activity," (pg. 379). In some of the other readings, surveillance has notably had a negative connotation. However, the cousin is gathering information about people to live vicariously through them. He doesn't intend to anything nefarious, but is instead trying to experience the life he lost due to his illness. - The two speak with such certainty about the lives and characters of others that I sometimes forgot they're just stories being made up based on what they look like. I imagine Lavater would support these observations based on his stance on the certainty and accuracy of physiognomy. There's always specific mention of people's facial features that are used to back up what the two men end up saying. These wild assumptions make me think that "seeing" in this story is closer to imagining than actually looking.