Testimonies such as that of Borges and Grunwald remind those of us lucky enough not to be suffering a dying of the light how important eyesight is. As a writer, my principal responsibility and my desire is to make the reader see. How much more difficult that would be if I did not see myself. I grew up living next to a blind writer, a clever and generous man named Hector Chevigny. Love is blind.
Justice is blind.
Samson was blinded. The absence of sight can be made into a virtue, but reality bites. But the truth is that one wants to see actually as well as spiritually. I don't know if the great blind people of history would've traded insight for sight, but in any case, they had no choice. So one is left staring inwardly at all the astonishing objects they discovered in the dark.