Once again, not what I was expecting to read but I was thoroughly entertained. At first, I really wasn't sure where the story was going and it seemed to drag on with setting up the scene, but then the pieces started to come together and I began to connect it with our projects in class. By just taking the sound away from a video and listening to it with no visual aid gives one a very different perspective. I can only imagine what it would be like to be blind, and I wont even try to imagine what it would be like to experience everything from that perspective. Without visual aid, the mind relies on its other senses to guide it to conclusions. I found the detailed conversation of how Robert attempted to translate his feelings to the author, Raymond Carver. Robert simply had Carver close his eyes draw what he saw from watching a TV show about cathedrals. Carver was so moved by this thought that he had to sit and take it all in for a moment.
The only thing that I could point out and could be seen as negative, however it was later resolved, was the lack of appreciation on the part of Carver. He took for granted the most important sense in the human body and could barely describe a cathedral to a blind man. At least he recognized his poor ability to do so and later realized his fault in that. In all I thought this was a great piece and really learned a valuable lesson.
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