A Blind Man
[Thomas Hood]
Genre: | Essay, Drollery |
Subjects: | Disability, Astronomy, Botany, Materialism |
A blind man has eyes 'like shotten stars,—mere jellies' (62). 'With botanists he is a species of solanum, or night shade, whereof the berries are in his eyes'. 'In his religion he is a materialist, putting no faith but in things palpable'. (63) | |
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