"One Page" is a weekly excerpt from a book being read by one of our regulars. This week's One Page is torn by Mr. Goddard from Søren Keirkegaard's annonymously published Either/Or: It may at times have occurred to you, dear reader, to doubt somewhat the accuacy of that familiar philosophical thesis that the outer is the inner and the inner is the outer.  Perhaps you yourself have concealed a secret that in its joy or in its pain you felt was too intimate to share with others.  Perhaps your life has put you in touch with people about whom you suspected that something of ths nature was the case, although neither by force nor by invieglement were you able to bring out into the open that which was hidden.  Perhaps neither case applies to you and your life, and yet you are not unacquainted with that doubt; like a fleeting shape, it has drifted though your mind now and then.  A doubt such as this comes and goes, and no one knows whence it comes or whither it goes.  I myself have always been rather heretically minded on this philosophical point and therefore early in my life developed the habit of making observations and inestigations as well as possible.  For guidance, I have consulted the authors whose view I shared in this respect--in brief, I have done all I could to make up for what has been left undone in the philosophical writings.  Gradually, then, hearing became my most cherished sense, for just as the voice is the disclosure of inwardness incommensurable with the exterior, so the ear is the instrument that apprehends this inwardness, hearing the sense by which it is appropriated.  Consequently, every time I found a conntradiction between what I saw and what I heard, my doubt was confirmed and my zeal for observation increased.  A priest who hears confessions is separated by a grillwork from the person making confession; he does not see him, he only hears.  As he listens, he gradually forms a picture of the other's outward appearance corresponing to what he hears; thus he finds no contradiction.  It is different, however, when one sees and hears simultaneously but sees a grillwork between oneself and the speaker.  My efforts to make observations along this line have... This is the first page of the preface to Either/Or (p.3) edited and translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, Princeton UP, 1987.