To one patient, a human hand, unrecognized, is “something bright and then holes.” A little girl visits a garden. “She is greatly astonished, and can scarcely be persuaded to answer, stands speechless in front of a tree, which she only names on taking hold of it, and then as ‘the tree with the lights in it.’” A twenty-two-old girl was dazzled by the world’s brightness and kept her eyes shut for two weeks. When at the end of that time she opened her eyes again, she did not recognize any objects, but, “the more she now directed her gaze upon everything about her, the more it could be seen how an expression of gratification and astonishment overspread her features; she repeatedly exclaimed: ‘Oh God! How beautiful!’" –Annie Dillard excerpt from Seeing, Chapter 2, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:31:21 +0000
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