About the book
John M. Hull writes about blindness as a distant, deeply strange other world, recording how it alters almost every part of experience. He describes odd sounds and echoes, people without faces, and a new relationship between waking and dreaming. His perception of nature and of human personality changes as well. Ordinary activities, from eating and lovemaking to playing with children and buying drinks at a bar, are transformed. Oliver Sacks wrote the foreword, praising how closely Hull observes, how fine his language is, and how each experience is examined until it yields its meaning.
Ed Cooke, CEO of Memrise, described it as the story of a man gradually losing his sight across two decades, recalling Hull's point that rain lets a blind person hear the world in three dimensions.
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Ed Cooke (CEO/Memrise)
This is about a man's slow descent into blindness over 20 years. "He's a kind of theologian, but he has these wonderful reflections on how he came to enjoy the world [as a blind man]. One go-to example is that rain is the best thing for blind people, because you can hear the world in three dimensions. The pattering of the raindrops on the roofs, the pavement, the lampposts, and the buildings, gives you - because of the echo - a sense of 3-D space, where most of the time your 3-D space only goes a couple of yards in front of you, and otherwise is just the void."
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