"The light emanating from Spinoza, Colerus explained, was no less than sunlight. I suspected that heaven and earth had conspired to create this simile. Yet there is a less fortuitous reason why I will never fail to mention Spinoza's name. By disappearing before his own work, he bound himself to it forever. Where, in fact, are the traces of a living being in the ‘’Ethica‘’? Can anyone point out a place where even his shadow is present? But doesn't this little bit of reality seem to be his greatest attribute? This, then, is what Spinoza did, and the reason why we must remember him. He managed not to be the ‘author’ of the ‘'Ethica’'. (p. 100)"