This vision/blindness theme really has a hold on me.
My last post got me thinking about one of my all-time favorite stories, The Country of the Blind. H.G. Wells wrote this tale of a man who finds himself trapped in a village that has been physically cut off from the outside world for centuries. Over the years, the villagers have evolved a brutal congenital defect.
They’re blind.
All of them.
Completely.
Blind like—they’re born without eyes—that kind of blind.