the Sicilian term for one who gives the evil eye is jettatura, from the same root-word as ejaculation and projection in ancient Greek theories of vision, effluences called species emerge and propulse themselves from the surfaces of objects to impress directly onto eyes when looked at: corporeal images, copies, films, material replicas, simulacra in this seeing as a form of touch, is it the object that yearns to be looked at and emanates its seeds eyeward, or is it the desirous observer that must seduce the object into ejecting forth its species? does each person or object have a finite amount of dischargable species that can be dispensed with, does one need to shroud oneself to save their being looked at, so as to not have their seeds used up? maybe that is what death is: when a person or objects species have been used up and they cannot be seen anymore next