old as old / toothless / decrepit / submitted himself to continue / persevere through life’s sufferings without / it dawned / ever having taken the time to discover this one important fact / how would it go to have each waking moment a beauty / pure visual beauty / delectably before the eyes / the importance of the question lay in his inability to see beauty at will / it did exist / it did hit him / but what if it struck continually / to ring like a bell constantly struck / there he was wondering if he wanted to be a bell / if not a beauty then a bell / light falling across an old hairy ear