Seeing But Not Seeing

Jun 04, 2006 02:48



It has been almost a month since I finished reading Blindness, yet I still haven't been able to put it out of my mind.

Blindness, by the Portugese writer Jose Saramago, is, of course, about blindness. But such a literal reference from a Nobel Laureate would be cringeworthy, and, not to mention, really lame. Instead, Saramago uses blindness as a ( Read more... )

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criticalpeople June 4 2006, 22:19:36 UTC
It's great to see your intellectual juices flowing again.

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