(Above) Eyeless in Gaza - Victor Mature as the blinded Samson, used as a beast of burden milling grain for the Philistines. The line “Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves” comes from John Milton’s Samson Agonistes. It was used by Aldous Huxley as the title of one of his greatest books (I think so anyway - I know lots of people don’t like Huxley). I have a fear, thirty years from now, of turning into Anthony Beavis from Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza (fat, boring, endlessly ruminating over a wasted life) - it is a fear that has recently made me take up exercising on my brother’s rowing machine, and consciously looking to extend my circle of friends.