If I am reading this correctly, the narrator is a conflation of a Wise Man of the Nativity story and Mr. Magoo, the chronically befuddled and nearly blind cartoon character. There also seems to be an allusion to "Where's Waldo?" in the children's books. Although it is hard to pin down the point of this combination, there does seem to be both humor and pathos in it, the scholar and seeker become a figure of fun, the quest far off course and doomed.
Susan
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