One-Eyed Beings by Jorge Luis Borges — Read

Before it became the name of an optical instrument, the word ‘monocle' was applied to beings who had a single eye. So, in a sonnet composed at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Góngora writes of the Monóculo galán de Galatea (‘The monocle who yearns for Galatea') referring, of course, to Polyphemus, of whom he had previously written in his Fábula de Polifemo:

Un monte era de miembros eminente