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"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."
— Nov 19, 2016 09:06PM
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Rachel
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"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."
— Nov 19, 2016 09:04PM
Rachel
is on page 161 of 208
"Only the blind can sense how foolish the sighted world's patterned responses to blindness really are."
— Nov 19, 2016 09:01PM
