“When the beam struck my eye I heard a distinct popping sound, caused by a laser-induced explosion at the back of my eyeball. My vision was obscured almost immediately by streams of blood floating in the vitreous humor … It was like viewing the world through a round fishbowl full of glycerol into which a quart of blood and handful of black pepper have been partially mixed … ”

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