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  • ein Augenblick: (German) one blink of an eye; one instant, one moment
  • eye gone black → in death or sleep the eyes go black
  • one-eyed → several mythical characters were one-eyed (especially solar deities, the Sun being generally regarded as a great eye in the sky that sees all things): Wotan (Odin), Balor of the Evil Eye, Goll Mac Morna (Fionn MacCool's enemy), the Cyclopes, The Citizen (metaphorically speaking, in Ulysses)