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Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance.
Blind men and the elephant, 1907 American illustration. Blind Men Appraising an Elephant by Ohara Donshu, Edo Period (early 19th century), Brooklyn Museum. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.
A young, recently mute woman begins taking a class in Ancient Greek in an effort to reclaim language in some way. Her teacher, who is slowly going blind, draws closer to her over the course of their classes. As they become more intimately connected, they explore their inner pains and tensions together.
Notes on Blindness is a 2016 documentary film about John M. Hull, blind theologian and author of Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness. In the Dark is a 2019 TV series about a blind woman attempting to solve a murder. See is a 2019 science-fiction TV series, set in a post-apocalyptic world in which the human race has lost the sense of ...
[11] [12] On Turner Classic Movies, Margarita Landazuri said: "Dark Victory was a three-hanky hit. Filmgoers and critics alike knew their emotions were being manipulated, but so expertly and touchingly that they couldn't help but cheer." [4] The film is mentioned in the play Steel Magnolias, by Clairee in Act Two, Scene 1. [13]
A new book tells the extraordinary story of how, before stardom dawned, the musician devoted himself to being eyes—and a lifeline—for his beloved roommate Sanford "Sandy" Greenberg, who went ...
A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed and written by Guy Green about the friendship between an educated black man (played by Sidney Poitier) and an illiterate, blind, white 18-year-old girl (played by Elizabeth Hartman in her film debut), and the problems that plague their friendship in a racially divided America.
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