But I found I could barely make out the title pages and the spines. 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.