Rachel’s Reviews > Planet of the Blind > Status Update

"Blindness is often perceived by the sighted as an either/or condition: one sees or does not see. But often a blind person experiences a series of veils: I stare at the world through smeared and broken windowpanes."

"Somewhere, in one of the letters of Horace, the Roman orator and poet, he says that the ears provide less nourishment to the human soul than the eyes. I suppose the assertion was true in the pagan world, the world before Bach."