After that I let the binoculars pan out over the face of the building in a general, undirected way, but didn’t focus them on anything for long. Then I lowered them and looked out at the view without the aid of their magnification. I could see so many squares and rectangles of light, but I could also see the outlines of the buildings in the dark, and could see where traffic was moving through neighborhoods in the near distance, as well as farther out, where the city blocks or the grid of the streets appeared smaller and denser due to the height and the perspective from which I was regarding them. There were so many things to look at that you could not really choose a particular one of them, but instead wanted to take in the whole scene. Though by ‘take in’ I don’t mean internalize so much as observe without judgment or understanding. As if what you were looking at was not much more than a well-lit geometric pattern. Which, in a sense, at that time of night, it wasn’t.