He looked at the sun through a page or two.

Not unless I look almost right at the sun, anyway.

Is it a similar reason for not looking directly at the sun?

Since then I haven't been able to look at the sun.

But then he would look at the sun, and realize, no we're going the right way.

We see it because we're looking at the sun through the atmosphere.

Soon the children could no longer look at the sun, it was so big and bright.

Maybe I would have to burn it away by looking at the sun.

He could look directly at the sun in the sky.

Then he turned and went back to looking at the sun go down.