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No Direction Home

 

Blindness will be like this. Will closes his eyes. He breathes deeply and settles into the darkness, testing it out. It isn't blackness. There is gray and red and brown. And there is texture to the darkness, too; it is a nubby plain, an ant's landscape of small rises and dips. But maybe he is seeing a sighted person's darkness, a darkness still shot through with traces of light and color and images of what he has seen moments before, when his eyes were open.”

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