I believe that thoughts inhabit the whole body, though not all of them travel to the head to be clothed in words. I know that some thoughts walk barefoot through the body. When the eyes seem to be absent—their gaze lost because the intellect has withdrawn for a few moments and left them empty while the thoughts in the head deliberate behind closed doors—the barefoot thoughts move up through the body and settle in the eyes. From there, like snakes that hypnotize birds, they seek an object to fix the gaze on. They also hypnotize the thoughts in the closed meeting, forcing them to abandon their deliberations.
Felisberto Hernández, "Lands of Memory" (tr. Esther Allen)