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丕賱毓賲賶
鬲鬲丨丿孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳 賵亘丕亍 睾丕賲囟 賷氐賷亘 廿丨丿賶 丕賱賲丿賳貙 丨賷孬 賷氐丕亘 兀賴賱 賴丿賴 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 亘丕賱毓賲賶 賮噩兀丞貙 賲賲丕 賷禺賱賯 賲賵噩丞 賲賳 丕賱匕毓乇 賵丕賱賮賵囟賶 丕賱毓丕乇賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丐丿賷 廿賱賶 鬲丿禺賱 丕賱噩賷卮 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱爻賷胤乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱兀賵囟丕毓貙 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賵囟毓 賷夭丿丕丿 賲兀爻丕賵賷丞 丨賷賳 賷鬲禺賱賶 丕賱噩賷卮 毓賱賶 丕賱丨卮賵丿 丕賱毓丕噩夭丞 賵丕賱賵丕賴賳丞貙 賲丕 賷丐丿賷 匕賱賰 廿賱賶 爻賷胤乇丞 丕賱毓氐丕亘丕鬲 毓賱賶 賲丕 鬲亘賯賶 賲賳 胤毓丕賲 賵丿賵丕亍. 賷亘丿兀 丕賱賳丕爻 賮賷 丕賱丕賯鬲鬲丕賱 賮賷賲丕 亘賷賳賴賲. 鬲賱賯賶 丕賱賯氐丞 丕賱囟賵亍 兀賷囟丕賸 毓賱賶 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷 丕賱賲鬲賲孬賱 賮賷 丕賱胤亘賷亘 賵夭賵噩鬲賴 賵毓丕卅賱鬲賴 丕賱匕賷賳 亘賯賵丕 賲鬲賲丕爻賰賷賳 丨鬲賶 丕賳丿孬丕乇 丕賱賲乇囟 賮噩兀丞 賰賲丕 馗賴乇. 鬲鬲丨丿孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳 丕賱毓賲賶 丕賱賮賰乇賷 丨賷孬 賯丕賱鬲 夭賵噩丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 " 賱丕 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賳丕 毓賲賷賳丕 亘賱 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賳丕 毓賲賷丕賳 賷乇賵賳貙 亘卮乇 毓賲賷丕賳 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 兀賳 賷乇賵丕 賱賰賳賴賲 賱丕 賷乇賵賳" 賮賷 廿卮丕乇丞 兀賷囟丕賸 兀賳 丕賱兀禺賱丕賯 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賵 丕賱賲亘丕丿卅 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 賴卮丞 兀賲丕賲 丕賱毓賵夭 丕賱亘卮乇賷.
318 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Jos茅 Saramago
281听books15.8k听followersJos茅 de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 鈥� 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."
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"丕賱兀賰孬乇 乇毓亘丕 賲賳 丕賱毓賲賷 .. 賴賵 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱賵丨賷丿 丕賱匕賷 賷乇賷"
賵賴匕賴 乇賵丕賷丞 乇亘賲丕 爻鬲購睾賷乇 乇丐賷鬲賰 賱賱毓丕賱賲..賱賱兀亘丿
鬲匕賰乇鬲 亘賯乇丕亍鬲賷 賱鬲賱賰 丕賱丌賷丞 丕賱賰乇賷賲丞 賲丕 丨丿孬 賲賳 亘毓囟 賳賵毓賷丕鬲 丕賱亘卮乇 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞/丕賱賮賷賱賲 賱賱賲丐賱賮 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 噩賵夭賷賴 爻丕乇賲丕噩賵 丕賱匕賷 賱賱丕爻賮 鬲兀禺乇鬲 賯乇丕亍鬲賷 賱賴貙 賵鬲賱賰 丕賱賯氐丞 丕賱賲賯亘囟丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 賰賱 丕賱賱賵賳 丕賱兀亘賷囟 丕賱睾丕賱亘 賮賷 氐賵乇賴丕 賵丕賱賰丕丿乇丕鬲
賷丕 丕賱賱賴 毓賱賷 丕賱亘卮乇 .. 賷賯賵賱賵賳 兀賳 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賷馗賴乇 賲毓丿賳賴 丕賱兀氐賱賷 賵賯鬲 丕賱卮丿丕卅丿
賵賴匕丕 丕賱賮賷乇賵爻 丕賱兀亘賷囟..丕賱毓賲賷 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賷賱 賰賱 賲丕 賳乇丕賴 兀亘賷囟 賰丕賳 兀丨丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱卮丿丕卅丿..賵賯丿 爻賵丿賾 丕賱亘毓囟 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱亘賷丕囟
廿賴賲丕賱 丕賱爻賱胤丕鬲 賵丕賱丨賰賾丕賲 賱賱賲乇囟賷 亘賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賷 丕賱丕亘賷囟 丕賱賲賮丕噩卅 貙 賵毓夭賱賴賲 丿賵賳 丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 亘賳馗丕賮丞 兀賵 鬲賳馗賷賲 ...賮賯胤 賱賱賴賱毓..賵丕賱噩夭毓
賮賷丨丿孬 氐乇丕毓 毓賱賷 爻賱胤丞 賵丕賴賷丞 賮賯胤 賱賱胤賲毓 賵丕乇囟丕亍 丕賱卮賴賵丕鬲 賵丕賱噩卮毓
賵賯鬲賴丕 賲賳 賷囟毓 賷丿賴 毓賱賷 丕賱睾匕丕亍..丕賱禺賷乇 貙 賷賰賵賳 賲賳賵毓丕 賵賷賲賳毓 丕賱睾匕丕亍 毓賱賷 丕賱囟毓賮丕亍
賳毓賲 賴賷 賳馗乇丞 爻賵丿丕賵賷丞 亘卮賰賱 乇賴賷亘 賵賱賰賳 賲賳 賯丕賱 兀賳賴丕 亘毓賷丿丞 -賮賷 禺賷賵胤賴丕 丕賱兀爻丕爻賷丞- 毓賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓責
賱爻亘亘 賲丕 毓賳丿賲丕 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賲爻鬲卮賮賷 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲 賵囟毓 亘賴丕 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 鬲匕賰乇鬲 丨丕賱 80% 賲賳 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 亘賱丿賳丕 睾賷乇 丕賱丕爻鬲孬賲丕乇賷丞 , 睾賷乇 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 賷賯丿乇 毓賱賷賴丕 廿賱丕 賲賳 賷賲賰賳賴 丿賮毓 丕賱兀賱丕賮 賱賱賷賱丞 賵丕丨丿丞 亘丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 丕賱賲乇賰夭丞
賱爻亘亘 賲丕 毓賳丿賲丕 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賮賵囟賷 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 毓賱賷 丕賱兀爻賵丕賯 丕賱鬲噩丕乇賷丞 匕賰乇鬲賳賷 亘賰賱 丕賱賮賵囟賷 丕賱鬲賷 丨丿孬鬲 毓賳丿賳丕 賮賷 賵賯鬲 丕賱孬賵乇丞 亘亘毓囟 丕賱兀爻賵丕賯 賵亘賱胤噩丞 "賰賰丕乇賮賵乇 丕賱兀爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 28 賷賳丕賷乇"..賵賲丕 賷丨丿孬 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 亘賱丿丕賳 賰孬賷乇丞 賮賷 賲孬賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀賵賯丕鬲
丕賱賭"賲爻鬲賯賵賷" 賵丕賱賲爻鬲丨賵匕 毓賱賷 賰賱 丕賱胤毓丕賲 賵賷鬲丨賰賲 亘亘丕賯賷 丕賱亘卮乇 亘賴 , 亘賱胤噩丞 .. 賲賳毓 賱賱禺賷乇 賵丕賱丨賯 ..丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿 賵卮賴賵丞 賱賱丨賰賲
賰賱 賴匕丕 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱氐睾賷乇 丕賱匕賷 賰賵賳賴 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 丿丕禺賱 丕賱賲爻鬲卮賮賷 , 賲爻鬲卮賮賷 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷賳..氐乇丕毓 毓賱賷 丕賱丨賰賲 亘賱 賵賳馗丕賲 賲賱賰賷丞 賵丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿 賵胤丕睾賷丞
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賲賳 賯丕賱 賲丕匕丕責 賲賳 氐丕丨亘 鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賲賱丞..賲賳 丕賱匕賷 賮毓賱 賴匕丕..賴賱 賴匕丕 丨賵丕乇 兀賲 亘丕賯賷 丕賱爻乇丿責
賱賷爻 丕賱毓賷亘 賮賷 賳馗乇賰 ,賵賱賷爻 毓賷亘丕 賮賷 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丕鬲 , 爻賵丕亍 丕賱兀賳噩賱賷夭賷丞 兀賵 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞
賮賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱賳氐 丕賱匕賷 賰鬲亘賴 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 噩賵夭賷賴..賰賲丕 亘賷賳 賷丿賷賰
丕賱丨賵丕乇 賲禺鬲賱胤 ,兀丨賷丕賳丕 賱丕 鬲毓乇賮 賲鬲賷 亘丿兀鬲 噩賲賱丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘 丕賱丨賵丕乇賷丞 賵賲鬲賷 亘丿兀 乇丿 夭賵噩鬲賴..賵賲鬲賷 亘丿兀 丕賱爻乇丿 賲乇丞 丕禺乇賷責..丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 毓賱丕賲丕鬲 丕賱鬲乇賯賷賲 賲賳 兀賯賵丕爻 丨賵丕乇賷丞 賵禺賱丕賮賴 卮亘賴賴 賲賳毓丿賲
賱賲丕匕丕责
賱丕 鬲賳爻 ,兀賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇 賲噩賲賵毓丞 賲賳 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳..賵賲亘氐乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞
兀賷賳 丨丿孬鬲 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 .. 賲丕 兀爻賲丕亍 丕賱兀卮禺丕氐責
賱賳 鬲丿乇賷..賵賴匕賴 兀賷囟丕 毓亘賯乇賷丞 丕賱賲丐賱賮
丕爻鬲禺丿賲 丕賱賲丐賱賮 賮賰乇丞 丕賱賱丕賲賰丕賳 賵丕賱賱丕夭賲丕賳, 亘賱 賱賲 賷賲賳丨 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 兀爻賲丕亍..賷毓乇賮賵賳 亘兀毓賲丕賱賴賲 丕賵 爻賲丕鬲賴賲 " 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 , 夭賵噩丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇, 丕賱賲乇賷囟 丕賱兀賵賱, 匕丕鬲 丕賱賳馗丕乇丞 丕賱卮賲爻賷丞..丕賱禺" 亘賱 賵丨鬲賷 丕賱丿賵賱丞 賱丕 鬲亘丿賵 賱賰 丕賷賳 賴賷 亘丕賱囟亘胤
賵丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞 賴賳丕 兀賳 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰賱賴丕 ,亘兀賷 賱睾丞 鬲賯乇兀賴丕 ...爻鬲卮毓乇 兀賳 -賱丕 賯丿乇 丕賱賱賴- 廿匕丕 賲丕 丕氐丕亘鬲 丕賱亘賱丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮丕噩毓丞, 賴匕丕 賳賮爻 賲丕 賯丿 賷丨丿孬 賱賰 賵賱賲賳 丨賵賱賰 ,賱丨賰賵賲鬲賰 賵爻賱胤丕鬲賰
賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱胤亘毓 丕賱亘卮乇賷
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賴賳丕賰 賱氐, 賱賷爻 賱氐丕 賲丨鬲乇賮丕 賵賱賰賳賴 賮賯胤 賵噩丿 賮乇氐丞 爻乇賯丞 爻賷丕乇丞 賲賳 乇噩賱 兀毓賲賷 賲鬲丕丨丕 亘爻賴賵賱丞...賮賮毓賱賴丕
賵賱賰賳賴 卮毓乇 亘鬲兀賳賷亘 丕賱囟賲賷乇 亘賲噩乇丿 兀賳 毓賲賾賷 , 賵賰乇丕賴賷丞 賱賱兀毓賲賷 氐丕丨亘 丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 賱兀賳賴 賷乇賷 兀賳賴 丕賱爻亘亘 賮賷 毓賲丕賴
氐丕丨亘 丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 "丕賱兀毓賲賷 丕賱兀賵賱" 賷賲賯鬲 賵賷賰乇賴 爻丕乇賯 爻賷丕乇鬲賴 丕賱匕賷 丕爻鬲睾賱 毓賲丕賴 , 賵賱賰賳賴 賷卮毓乇 亘丕賱鬲毓丕胤賮 賲毓賴 賵賲爻丕賲丨鬲賴 毓賳丿賲丕 賷噩丿賴 賷丨鬲囟乇
丕賱賮鬲丕丞 丕賱賲鬲丨乇乇丞 "丕賱賲丨馗賷丞" 亘賲噩乇丿 毓賲丕賴丕 鬲卮毓乇 亘卮卅 賲賳 丕賱毓賮丞 ..賵丕賱丨賳賷賳 賱廿賴賱賴丕 賵丕賱賯賱賯 毓賱賷賴賲 ,賵丕賱賯賱賯 毓賱賷 賯賱賯賴賲 毓賱賷賴丕
丕賱賮鬲賷 丕賱氐睾賷乇..丕賱匕賷 賱丕賷胤賷賯 丕賱兀亘鬲毓丕丿 毓賳 兀賲賴 ,亘賲噩乇丿 鬲賯亘賱賴 賱賱兀賲乇 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賵毓賲丕賴 賷丨丕賵賱 丕賱鬲賰賷賮..賵鬲乇賰 賵丕賱丿賷賴 噩丕賳亘丕 賵賲丨丕賵賱丞 丕賱鬲毓丕賷卮 賲毓 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕賲丕賲賴
丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 賷卮毓乇 胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 亘毓噩夭賴 丕賲丕賲 夭賵噩鬲賴,丕賱鬲賷 氐丕乇鬲 "毓氐丕賴 丕賱亘賷囟丕亍" ,賱賷爻 賴匕丕 賮丨爻亘 亘賱 賴賷 氐丕乇鬲 毓賷賳丕賴 賵賷丿丕賴..氐丕乇鬲 賴賷 丕賱賲爻丐賱丞 毓賳賴 賵賱賷爻 賲賳賴 賰丕賱賲賮鬲乇囟
賴賳丕賰 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍..丕賱丨賰賷賲 , 賰丕賳 賲賯丿乇丕 賱賴 囟毓賮 亘氐乇 賳賴丕卅賷 亘毓賷賳賴 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 ..賱匕賱賰 賱賲 賷睾賷乇 丕賱毓賲賷 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丨賰賲鬲賴
賯丿 賷賰賵賳 丕賱毓賲賷 睾賷乇 亘毓囟 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賵丕賱胤亘丕毓 賱賱兀賮囟賱..賵乇亘賲丕 賱賱兀爻賵兀
乇亘賲丕 亘賮賯丿 丕賱亘毓囟 亘氐乇賴賲 丕爻鬲毓丕丿賵丕 亘氐賷乇鬲賴賲 , 賵乇亘賲丕 亘丕氐丕亘鬲賴賲 亘丕賱毓賲賷 丕賮賯丿賴賲 氐賵丕亘賴賲
乇亘賲丕 賱賴匕丕 賰丕賳 乇賲夭 賲卮賮賷 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷賳
賵賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 賱賲 賷毓賲賷..賵賱賰賳賴 鬲丨賲賱 囟睾胤丕 丕囟禺賲 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賳 賰賱 亘丕賯賷 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳
賴賷 卮禺氐賷丞 夭賵噩丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇
夭賵噩丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱賲亘氐乇丞 ... 鬲乇賷 毓賷賵亘 賵賳賵丕賯氐 丕賱噩賲賷毓 , 鬲丨丕賵賱 亘賯丿乇 丕賱兀賲賰丕賳 鬲賳馗賷賲 丨賷丕丞 亘囟毓 丕賱兀賮乇丕丿 丕賱賲賯賷賲賷賳 賲毓賴丕 賵夭賵噩賴丕 賮賷 丕賱毓賳亘乇
鬲毓乇賮 兀賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 賱賳 賷乇丨賲賵賴丕 廿匕丕 賲丕 毓乇賮賵丕 亘兀賳賴丕 賲亘氐乇丞, 爻賷毓丕賲賱賵賳賴丕 賲毓丕賲賱丞 丕賱毓亘賷丿
賵亘氐乇丕丨丞 兀毓鬲亘乇賴丕 賵丕丨丿丞 賲賳 兀賴賲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賳爻丕卅賷丞 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賯乇兀鬲賴丕
賵賯丿 賳噩丨 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 賳賯賱 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 賵丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇賷 亘毓丿 兀賳 賯乇兀鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
亘丕賱胤亘毓 丕禺鬲氐乇 卮賷卅丕 賲賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘丕賱兀禺氐 亘毓丿 丕賱禺乇賵噩 賲賳 丕賱賲爻鬲卮賮賷 賵賱賰賳 丕賱兀賲乇 賰丕賳 賲乇賴賯丕 賮毓賱丕 ..賵賱賰賳 賱丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 賳賳丨賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 噩丕賳亘丕 賱鬲毓賲賯賴丕 賮賷 賳賮爻賷丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘丕賱胤亘毓 亘卮賰賱 兀賰亘乇
賵賱賱毓賱賲 兀賳 噩賵夭賷丞 爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 毓賳丿賲丕 卮丕賴丿 丕賱賮賷賱賲 睾賱亘鬲賴 丿賲賵毓賴 鬲丕孬乇丕 賵卮賰乇 丕賱賲禺乇噩 賱爻毓丕丿鬲賴 亘賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賮賷賱賲 亘賳賮爻 爻毓丕丿鬲賴 賷賵賲 丕賳賴賷 賰鬲丕亘丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱乇賴賷亘丞..丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞..丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞
廿賱丕 賲賳 乇丨賲 乇亘賷
禺賱賷 毓賳丿賰 兀賲賱
賲丨賲丿 丕賱毓乇亘賷
賮賷 賷賵賳賷賵 2015
丕賱賯乇丕亍丞
賲賳 20 賷賵賱賷賵 2015
廿賱賷 25 賷賵賱賷賵 2015
賵賴匕賴 乇賵丕賷丞 乇亘賲丕 爻鬲購睾賷乇 乇丐賷鬲賰 賱賱毓丕賱賲..賱賱兀亘丿
氐丿賯 丕賱賱賴 丕賱毓馗賷賲
{廿賽賳賻賾 丕賱賿廿賽賳爻賻丕賳賻 禺購賱賽賯賻 賴賻賱購賵毓丕賸 * 廿賽匕賻丕 賲賻爻賻賾賴購 丕賱卮賻賾乇購賾 噩賻夭購賵毓丕賸 * 賵賻廿賽匕賻丕 賲賻爻賻賾賴購 丕賱賿禺賻賷賿乇購 賲賻賳購賵毓丕賸}
鬲匕賰乇鬲 亘賯乇丕亍鬲賷 賱鬲賱賰 丕賱丌賷丞 丕賱賰乇賷賲丞 賲丕 丨丿孬 賲賳 亘毓囟 賳賵毓賷丕鬲 丕賱亘卮乇 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞/丕賱賮賷賱賲 賱賱賲丐賱賮 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 噩賵夭賷賴 爻丕乇賲丕噩賵 丕賱匕賷 賱賱丕爻賮 鬲兀禺乇鬲 賯乇丕亍鬲賷 賱賴貙 賵鬲賱賰 丕賱賯氐丞 丕賱賲賯亘囟丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 賰賱 丕賱賱賵賳 丕賱兀亘賷囟 丕賱睾丕賱亘 賮賷 氐賵乇賴丕 賵丕賱賰丕丿乇丕鬲
賷丕 丕賱賱賴 毓賱賷 丕賱亘卮乇 .. 賷賯賵賱賵賳 兀賳 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賷馗賴乇 賲毓丿賳賴 丕賱兀氐賱賷 賵賯鬲 丕賱卮丿丕卅丿
賵賴匕丕 丕賱賮賷乇賵爻 丕賱兀亘賷囟..丕賱毓賲賷 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賷賱 賰賱 賲丕 賳乇丕賴 兀亘賷囟 賰丕賳 兀丨丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱卮丿丕卅丿..賵賯丿 爻賵丿賾 丕賱亘毓囟 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱亘賷丕囟
廿賴賲丕賱 丕賱爻賱胤丕鬲 賵丕賱丨賰賾丕賲 賱賱賲乇囟賷 亘賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賷 丕賱丕亘賷囟 丕賱賲賮丕噩卅 貙 賵毓夭賱賴賲 丿賵賳 丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 亘賳馗丕賮丞 兀賵 鬲賳馗賷賲 ...賮賯胤 賱賱賴賱毓..賵丕賱噩夭毓
賮賷丨丿孬 氐乇丕毓 毓賱賷 爻賱胤丞 賵丕賴賷丞 賮賯胤 賱賱胤賲毓 賵丕乇囟丕亍 丕賱卮賴賵丕鬲 賵丕賱噩卮毓
賵賯鬲賴丕 賲賳 賷囟毓 賷丿賴 毓賱賷 丕賱睾匕丕亍..丕賱禺賷乇 貙 賷賰賵賳 賲賳賵毓丕 賵賷賲賳毓 丕賱睾匕丕亍 毓賱賷 丕賱囟毓賮丕亍
賳毓賲 賴賷 賳馗乇丞 爻賵丿丕賵賷丞 亘卮賰賱 乇賴賷亘 賵賱賰賳 賲賳 賯丕賱 兀賳賴丕 亘毓賷丿丞 -賮賷 禺賷賵胤賴丕 丕賱兀爻丕爻賷丞- 毓賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓責
賱爻亘亘 賲丕 毓賳丿賲丕 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賲爻鬲卮賮賷 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲 賵囟毓 亘賴丕 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 鬲匕賰乇鬲 丨丕賱 80% 賲賳 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 亘賱丿賳丕 睾賷乇 丕賱丕爻鬲孬賲丕乇賷丞 , 睾賷乇 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 賷賯丿乇 毓賱賷賴丕 廿賱丕 賲賳 賷賲賰賳賴 丿賮毓 丕賱兀賱丕賮 賱賱賷賱丞 賵丕丨丿丞 亘丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 丕賱賲乇賰夭丞
賱爻亘亘 賲丕 毓賳丿賲丕 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賮賵囟賷 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 毓賱賷 丕賱兀爻賵丕賯 丕賱鬲噩丕乇賷丞 匕賰乇鬲賳賷 亘賰賱 丕賱賮賵囟賷 丕賱鬲賷 丨丿孬鬲 毓賳丿賳丕 賮賷 賵賯鬲 丕賱孬賵乇丞 亘亘毓囟 丕賱兀爻賵丕賯 賵亘賱胤噩丞 "賰賰丕乇賮賵乇 丕賱兀爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 28 賷賳丕賷乇"..賵賲丕 賷丨丿孬 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 亘賱丿丕賳 賰孬賷乇丞 賮賷 賲孬賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀賵賯丕鬲
丕賱賭"賲爻鬲賯賵賷" 賵丕賱賲爻鬲丨賵匕 毓賱賷 賰賱 丕賱胤毓丕賲 賵賷鬲丨賰賲 亘亘丕賯賷 丕賱亘卮乇 亘賴 , 亘賱胤噩丞 .. 賲賳毓 賱賱禺賷乇 賵丕賱丨賯 ..丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿 賵卮賴賵丞 賱賱丨賰賲
賰賱 賴匕丕 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱氐睾賷乇 丕賱匕賷 賰賵賳賴 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 丿丕禺賱 丕賱賲爻鬲卮賮賷 , 賲爻鬲卮賮賷 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷賳..氐乇丕毓 毓賱賷 丕賱丨賰賲 亘賱 賵賳馗丕賲 賲賱賰賷丞 賵丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿 賵胤丕睾賷丞
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兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
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賲賳 賯丕賱 賲丕匕丕責 賲賳 氐丕丨亘 鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賲賱丞..賲賳 丕賱匕賷 賮毓賱 賴匕丕..賴賱 賴匕丕 丨賵丕乇 兀賲 亘丕賯賷 丕賱爻乇丿責
賱賷爻 丕賱毓賷亘 賮賷 賳馗乇賰 ,賵賱賷爻 毓賷亘丕 賮賷 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丕鬲 , 爻賵丕亍 丕賱兀賳噩賱賷夭賷丞 兀賵 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞
賮賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱賳氐 丕賱匕賷 賰鬲亘賴 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 噩賵夭賷賴..賰賲丕 亘賷賳 賷丿賷賰
丕賱丨賵丕乇 賲禺鬲賱胤 ,兀丨賷丕賳丕 賱丕 鬲毓乇賮 賲鬲賷 亘丿兀鬲 噩賲賱丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘 丕賱丨賵丕乇賷丞 賵賲鬲賷 亘丿兀 乇丿 夭賵噩鬲賴..賵賲鬲賷 亘丿兀 丕賱爻乇丿 賲乇丞 丕禺乇賷責..丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 毓賱丕賲丕鬲 丕賱鬲乇賯賷賲 賲賳 兀賯賵丕爻 丨賵丕乇賷丞 賵禺賱丕賮賴 卮亘賴賴 賲賳毓丿賲
賱賲丕匕丕责
賱丕 鬲賳爻 ,兀賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇 賲噩賲賵毓丞 賲賳 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳..賵賲亘氐乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞
兀賷賳 丨丿孬鬲 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 .. 賲丕 兀爻賲丕亍 丕賱兀卮禺丕氐責
賱賳 鬲丿乇賷..賵賴匕賴 兀賷囟丕 毓亘賯乇賷丞 丕賱賲丐賱賮
丕爻鬲禺丿賲 丕賱賲丐賱賮 賮賰乇丞 丕賱賱丕賲賰丕賳 賵丕賱賱丕夭賲丕賳, 亘賱 賱賲 賷賲賳丨 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 兀爻賲丕亍..賷毓乇賮賵賳 亘兀毓賲丕賱賴賲 丕賵 爻賲丕鬲賴賲 " 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 , 夭賵噩丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇, 丕賱賲乇賷囟 丕賱兀賵賱, 匕丕鬲 丕賱賳馗丕乇丞 丕賱卮賲爻賷丞..丕賱禺" 亘賱 賵丨鬲賷 丕賱丿賵賱丞 賱丕 鬲亘丿賵 賱賰 丕賷賳 賴賷 亘丕賱囟亘胤
賵丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞 賴賳丕 兀賳 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰賱賴丕 ,亘兀賷 賱睾丞 鬲賯乇兀賴丕 ...爻鬲卮毓乇 兀賳 -賱丕 賯丿乇 丕賱賱賴- 廿匕丕 賲丕 丕氐丕亘鬲 丕賱亘賱丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮丕噩毓丞, 賴匕丕 賳賮爻 賲丕 賯丿 賷丨丿孬 賱賰 賵賱賲賳 丨賵賱賰 ,賱丨賰賵賲鬲賰 賵爻賱胤丕鬲賰
賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱胤亘毓 丕賱亘卮乇賷
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丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘賷賳 丕賱毓賲賷 賵丕賱亘氐賷乇丞
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賴賳丕賰 賱氐, 賱賷爻 賱氐丕 賲丨鬲乇賮丕 賵賱賰賳賴 賮賯胤 賵噩丿 賮乇氐丞 爻乇賯丞 爻賷丕乇丞 賲賳 乇噩賱 兀毓賲賷 賲鬲丕丨丕 亘爻賴賵賱丞...賮賮毓賱賴丕
賵賱賰賳賴 卮毓乇 亘鬲兀賳賷亘 丕賱囟賲賷乇 亘賲噩乇丿 兀賳 毓賲賾賷 , 賵賰乇丕賴賷丞 賱賱兀毓賲賷 氐丕丨亘 丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 賱兀賳賴 賷乇賷 兀賳賴 丕賱爻亘亘 賮賷 毓賲丕賴
氐丕丨亘 丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 "丕賱兀毓賲賷 丕賱兀賵賱" 賷賲賯鬲 賵賷賰乇賴 爻丕乇賯 爻賷丕乇鬲賴 丕賱匕賷 丕爻鬲睾賱 毓賲丕賴 , 賵賱賰賳賴 賷卮毓乇 亘丕賱鬲毓丕胤賮 賲毓賴 賵賲爻丕賲丨鬲賴 毓賳丿賲丕 賷噩丿賴 賷丨鬲囟乇
丕賱賮鬲丕丞 丕賱賲鬲丨乇乇丞 "丕賱賲丨馗賷丞" 亘賲噩乇丿 毓賲丕賴丕 鬲卮毓乇 亘卮卅 賲賳 丕賱毓賮丞 ..賵丕賱丨賳賷賳 賱廿賴賱賴丕 賵丕賱賯賱賯 毓賱賷賴賲 ,賵丕賱賯賱賯 毓賱賷 賯賱賯賴賲 毓賱賷賴丕
丕賱賮鬲賷 丕賱氐睾賷乇..丕賱匕賷 賱丕賷胤賷賯 丕賱兀亘鬲毓丕丿 毓賳 兀賲賴 ,亘賲噩乇丿 鬲賯亘賱賴 賱賱兀賲乇 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賵毓賲丕賴 賷丨丕賵賱 丕賱鬲賰賷賮..賵鬲乇賰 賵丕賱丿賷賴 噩丕賳亘丕 賵賲丨丕賵賱丞 丕賱鬲毓丕賷卮 賲毓 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕賲丕賲賴
丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 賷卮毓乇 胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 亘毓噩夭賴 丕賲丕賲 夭賵噩鬲賴,丕賱鬲賷 氐丕乇鬲 "毓氐丕賴 丕賱亘賷囟丕亍" ,賱賷爻 賴匕丕 賮丨爻亘 亘賱 賴賷 氐丕乇鬲 毓賷賳丕賴 賵賷丿丕賴..氐丕乇鬲 賴賷 丕賱賲爻丐賱丞 毓賳賴 賵賱賷爻 賲賳賴 賰丕賱賲賮鬲乇囟
賴賳丕賰 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍..丕賱丨賰賷賲 , 賰丕賳 賲賯丿乇丕 賱賴 囟毓賮 亘氐乇 賳賴丕卅賷 亘毓賷賳賴 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 ..賱匕賱賰 賱賲 賷睾賷乇 丕賱毓賲賷 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丨賰賲鬲賴
賯丿 賷賰賵賳 丕賱毓賲賷 睾賷乇 亘毓囟 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賵丕賱胤亘丕毓 賱賱兀賮囟賱..賵乇亘賲丕 賱賱兀爻賵兀
乇亘賲丕 亘賮賯丿 丕賱亘毓囟 亘氐乇賴賲 丕爻鬲毓丕丿賵丕 亘氐賷乇鬲賴賲 , 賵乇亘賲丕 亘丕氐丕亘鬲賴賲 亘丕賱毓賲賷 丕賮賯丿賴賲 氐賵丕亘賴賲
乇亘賲丕 賱賴匕丕 賰丕賳 乇賲夭 賲卮賮賷 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷賳
賵賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 賱賲 賷毓賲賷..賵賱賰賳賴 鬲丨賲賱 囟睾胤丕 丕囟禺賲 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賳 賰賱 亘丕賯賷 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳
賴賷 卮禺氐賷丞 夭賵噩丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇
夭賵噩丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱賲亘氐乇丞 ... 鬲乇賷 毓賷賵亘 賵賳賵丕賯氐 丕賱噩賲賷毓 , 鬲丨丕賵賱 亘賯丿乇 丕賱兀賲賰丕賳 鬲賳馗賷賲 丨賷丕丞 亘囟毓 丕賱兀賮乇丕丿 丕賱賲賯賷賲賷賳 賲毓賴丕 賵夭賵噩賴丕 賮賷 丕賱毓賳亘乇
鬲毓乇賮 兀賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 賱賳 賷乇丨賲賵賴丕 廿匕丕 賲丕 毓乇賮賵丕 亘兀賳賴丕 賲亘氐乇丞, 爻賷毓丕賲賱賵賳賴丕 賲毓丕賲賱丞 丕賱毓亘賷丿
賵亘氐乇丕丨丞 兀毓鬲亘乇賴丕 賵丕丨丿丞 賲賳 兀賴賲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賳爻丕卅賷丞 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賯乇兀鬲賴丕
賵賯丿 賳噩丨 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 賳賯賱 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 賵丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇賷 亘毓丿 兀賳 賯乇兀鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
亘丕賱胤亘毓 丕禺鬲氐乇 卮賷卅丕 賲賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘丕賱兀禺氐 亘毓丿 丕賱禺乇賵噩 賲賳 丕賱賲爻鬲卮賮賷 賵賱賰賳 丕賱兀賲乇 賰丕賳 賲乇賴賯丕 賮毓賱丕 ..賵賱賰賳 賱丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 賳賳丨賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 噩丕賳亘丕 賱鬲毓賲賯賴丕 賮賷 賳賮爻賷丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘丕賱胤亘毓 亘卮賰賱 兀賰亘乇
賵賱賱毓賱賲 兀賳 噩賵夭賷丞 爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 毓賳丿賲丕 卮丕賴丿 丕賱賮賷賱賲 睾賱亘鬲賴 丿賲賵毓賴 鬲丕孬乇丕 賵卮賰乇 丕賱賲禺乇噩 賱爻毓丕丿鬲賴 亘賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賮賷賱賲 亘賳賮爻 爻毓丕丿鬲賴 賷賵賲 丕賳賴賷 賰鬲丕亘丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱乇賴賷亘丞..丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞..丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞
賵賻禺購賱賽賯賻 丕賱賿廿賽賳賿爻賻丕賳購 囟賻毓賽賷賮賸丕
廿賱丕 賲賳 乇丨賲 乇亘賷
禺賱賷 毓賳丿賰 兀賲賱
賲丨賲丿 丕賱毓乇亘賷
賮賷 賷賵賳賷賵 2015
丕賱賯乇丕亍丞
賲賳 20 賷賵賱賷賵 2015
廿賱賷 25 賷賵賱賷賵 2015
December 24, 2022
This book left me speechless (which is a rare occurrence). Please enjoy the pictures to illustrate the plot while I recover my gift of rambling.
An unexplained plague of "white blindness" sweeps the unnamed country. Initial attempts to hastily quarantine the blind in an abandoned mental hospital fail to contain the spread. What they succeed at is immediately creating the easy "us versus them" divide between the helpless newly blind and the terrified seeing. Before we know, we are immersed in the horrifying surreal world of hopelessness, filth, violence, and hate, where the true enemy is not their affliction but people themselves, which we can see through the eyes of the only person who appears immune to blindness.
As the blindness epidemic spreads, we see the disintegration of society just like we witnessed the destruction of humanity in the quarantine area. Excrement covers sidewalks, dogs munch on human corpses, the blind rot in the stores after futile attempts to find food. Even the saints in the churches are blinded. The world is a bleak picture of desolation and destruction.
We don't know why it happened - whether it's a test, a warning, or a punishment. Instead, we get a nagging haunting feeling that the real blindness was there all along - the blindness towards the others, the blindness towards our real selves, and the physical blindness served as a way to unveil it. What was always there but went unseen before because it used to be easy to shrug off. Fear. "Us against them" attitude. Greed. Contempt. Hatred. Selfishness. Love of power. Cowardice. Apathy. Isolation. Filth. Rape. Murder. Theft. Ignorance. Indifference. Blaming the victim. It was all already there, and blindness amplified it. And, as society decays and falls apart, the question of what is means to be human comes up.
Things that made us human are gone. Faces don't matter. Names don't matter. Homes don't matter. Possessions don't matter. Shame and modesty are gone. Medicine is useless. Government is useless. Morals seem obsolete. Empathy is gone. Is anything left? Anything inside us?
The vestiges of humanity are the only rays of hope in this bleak world. The girl with the dark glasses taking care of the boy with the squint. The man with the eye patch and his love. And the doctor's wife, the only one who retained her sight. Why? Was it because she was the most human? Or maybe she remained human because she retained her sight? Who knows? She is quiet and caring, leading the blind, washing the raped women, weeping over the dead but killing if she must. She sticks by her morals even if she is forced to violate them. She is the guiding light and the quiet hero in this world ofdarkness whiteness, keeping her charges from degradation without expecting anything in return.
The style of this book may not be for everyone (disclaimer: I loved it!). The pages are filled margin to margin with solid wall of text. There are no dialogue marks, and the seemingly mundane bits of everyday speech are separated only by capital letters. Sometimes you need to almost read the sentences out loud to get a feel for who is speaking (it's very fitting that the book about the blind is better perceived in a non-visual medium). The sentences are long (in a European fashion), run-on, and beautifully punctuated. It is not a book to skim, it requires concentration, and definitely is not a light read. If all of the above does not scare you, you should give this one a try.
I will finish this review with the plea in the epigraph for this thought-provoking eye-opening (no pun intended) book: "If you can see, look. If you can look, observe." Please, do. Let's try to look past our own blindness and actually see.
鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
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An unexplained plague of "white blindness" sweeps the unnamed country. Initial attempts to hastily quarantine the blind in an abandoned mental hospital fail to contain the spread. What they succeed at is immediately creating the easy "us versus them" divide between the helpless newly blind and the terrified seeing. Before we know, we are immersed in the horrifying surreal world of hopelessness, filth, violence, and hate, where the true enemy is not their affliction but people themselves, which we can see through the eyes of the only person who appears immune to blindness.
鈥淧erhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.鈥�
As the blindness epidemic spreads, we see the disintegration of society just like we witnessed the destruction of humanity in the quarantine area. Excrement covers sidewalks, dogs munch on human corpses, the blind rot in the stores after futile attempts to find food. Even the saints in the churches are blinded. The world is a bleak picture of desolation and destruction.
We don't know why it happened - whether it's a test, a warning, or a punishment. Instead, we get a nagging haunting feeling that the real blindness was there all along - the blindness towards the others, the blindness towards our real selves, and the physical blindness served as a way to unveil it. What was always there but went unseen before because it used to be easy to shrug off. Fear. "Us against them" attitude. Greed. Contempt. Hatred. Selfishness. Love of power. Cowardice. Apathy. Isolation. Filth. Rape. Murder. Theft. Ignorance. Indifference. Blaming the victim. It was all already there, and blindness amplified it. And, as society decays and falls apart, the question of what is means to be human comes up.
鈥淚 don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.鈥�
Things that made us human are gone. Faces don't matter. Names don't matter. Homes don't matter. Possessions don't matter. Shame and modesty are gone. Medicine is useless. Government is useless. Morals seem obsolete. Empathy is gone. Is anything left? Anything inside us?
鈥淭he difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.鈥�
The vestiges of humanity are the only rays of hope in this bleak world. The girl with the dark glasses taking care of the boy with the squint. The man with the eye patch and his love. And the doctor's wife, the only one who retained her sight. Why? Was it because she was the most human? Or maybe she remained human because she retained her sight? Who knows? She is quiet and caring, leading the blind, washing the raped women, weeping over the dead but killing if she must. She sticks by her morals even if she is forced to violate them. She is the guiding light and the quiet hero in this world of
鈥淚f we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.鈥�
The style of this book may not be for everyone (disclaimer: I loved it!). The pages are filled margin to margin with solid wall of text. There are no dialogue marks, and the seemingly mundane bits of everyday speech are separated only by capital letters. Sometimes you need to almost read the sentences out loud to get a feel for who is speaking (it's very fitting that the book about the blind is better perceived in a non-visual medium). The sentences are long (in a European fashion), run-on, and beautifully punctuated. It is not a book to skim, it requires concentration, and definitely is not a light read. If all of the above does not scare you, you should give this one a try.
I will finish this review with the plea in the epigraph for this thought-provoking eye-opening (no pun intended) book: "If you can see, look. If you can look, observe." Please, do. Let's try to look past our own blindness and actually see.
鈥斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌斺赌�
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June 19, 2007
When you sit in a coffee shop at the corner of two busy streets and read a book about blindness, you find yourself thinking unfamiliar thoughts, and you believe, when you raise your head to watch the people passing, that you see things differently. You notice the soft yellow light of the shop reflecting off the bronze of the hardwood floors. You notice among the people coming from the train two girls who intersect that line, spilt, call back, and go their ways, dividing into the two directions of larger traffic. When the girl working the shop goes out and leans against the brick entrance 鈥� to clear her head of coffee smells or just to see more of the sky 鈥� you feel the breeze blow in, and you smell it, and you feel that all these things 鈥� the sights and smells of a place you already know 鈥� are now something different. The place you know, you don鈥檛 know. It becomes mysterious, romantic: a newness you don鈥檛 have to search for, or travel toward, because you are already among it. You only want to feel more of it sweep over you, and as a result feel new yourself. If only for a few minutes longer.
You walk home and notice a discarded knit hat at the foot of a tree; you see the street cleaners鈥� orange signs tied to tree trunks, lampposts, telephone poles. You see a train run alongside you the color of the silver clouds, of the reflected golden light. You see people, in all their shapes, walk past you, each individual and anonymous. You feel anonymous yourself, and therefore more forgiving, more patient. You think everything is possible. You think everything possible must already exist. You think again of something you already believe: that people read the books that find them. That stories arrive to tell themselves, as relevant as news.
A little King, a little Camus, a little Gabriel Garcia: which is to say Blindness is a lot of everything.
You walk home and notice a discarded knit hat at the foot of a tree; you see the street cleaners鈥� orange signs tied to tree trunks, lampposts, telephone poles. You see a train run alongside you the color of the silver clouds, of the reflected golden light. You see people, in all their shapes, walk past you, each individual and anonymous. You feel anonymous yourself, and therefore more forgiving, more patient. You think everything is possible. You think everything possible must already exist. You think again of something you already believe: that people read the books that find them. That stories arrive to tell themselves, as relevant as news.
A little King, a little Camus, a little Gabriel Garcia: which is to say Blindness is a lot of everything.
December 9, 2024
I finished this masterpiece last week and I let it to sink in a little bit before reviewing it. The power of this book was quite overwhelming at times and I had to stop reading for a few days at a time. I do not think there are many books that disturbed me like this one. Maybe Never Let Me Go but there the message was much more subtle.
Some say that the structure of the book makes it very hard to read. I suppose the voice in my head did quite a good job in reading it as I did not encounter any difficulty to follow the narration. What made it difficult to read at times were the images and smells that were projected into my brain. At some point It seemed that excrement odor was rising from the pages in front of me.
Short version of the plot. One day people start to go blind without any prior symptom. Frightened, the Government tries to restrain the blindness epidemic by isolating the blind people. The quarantine is not successful and more and more people go blind. The book focuses on the life of a few "patients" locked and guarded into a mental institution, among who lives the only person immune to blindness. The loss of sight reduces people to their primal instincts (good or bad) and soon we are witnesses of some unimaginable horrors in the fight for food/supremacy/life and to the demise of all social and moral institutions. However, there are people that still try to help and to keep a bit of humanity and decency.
鈥淚f we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.鈥�
I thought that the book is a metaphor of the people that are walking through life without thinking about the violence and cruelty that is in front of them, their ignorance of anything that could menace their civilized life. I believe the book brings forward our fear/avoidance to see our mortality and the insignificance of our lives.
鈥淚 don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.鈥�
鈥淧erhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.鈥�
鈥淭his is the stuff we鈥檙e made of, half indifference and half malice.鈥�
Some say that the structure of the book makes it very hard to read. I suppose the voice in my head did quite a good job in reading it as I did not encounter any difficulty to follow the narration. What made it difficult to read at times were the images and smells that were projected into my brain. At some point It seemed that excrement odor was rising from the pages in front of me.
Short version of the plot. One day people start to go blind without any prior symptom. Frightened, the Government tries to restrain the blindness epidemic by isolating the blind people. The quarantine is not successful and more and more people go blind. The book focuses on the life of a few "patients" locked and guarded into a mental institution, among who lives the only person immune to blindness. The loss of sight reduces people to their primal instincts (good or bad) and soon we are witnesses of some unimaginable horrors in the fight for food/supremacy/life and to the demise of all social and moral institutions. However, there are people that still try to help and to keep a bit of humanity and decency.
鈥淚f we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.鈥�
I thought that the book is a metaphor of the people that are walking through life without thinking about the violence and cruelty that is in front of them, their ignorance of anything that could menace their civilized life. I believe the book brings forward our fear/avoidance to see our mortality and the insignificance of our lives.
鈥淚 don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.鈥�
鈥淧erhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.鈥�
鈥淭his is the stuff we鈥檙e made of, half indifference and half malice.鈥�
March 13, 2019
Just imagine that you are going about your daily life as you always do. It's a normal day; nothing out of the ordinary. But then, suddenly, without any forewarning, you go completely blind. One second seeing the world as you know it, the next experiencing a complete and unending whiteness.
Then imagine you go to the trusty health professionals so they can get to the bottom of it... the doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you, but you're confident he/she will figure it out and prescribe accordingly. And then the doctor goes blind. But not just him - everyone you have come into contact with is experiencing the same sudden white blindness. The condition spreads and takes hold within a few hours... soon this contagious blindness is spreading like wildfire and no one knows how to cure it.
This book is so frightening and so... realistic. Blindness is not an alien concept like monsters and ghosts, neither are contagious diseases. So imagine a disease that prompted sudden blindness; that spread from one person to another quicker than the common cold. This book feels like a story that could happen.
One of the main issues readers have with this - if they have any - is the writing style. It's written in huge blocks of text with little punctuation, no quotation marks, and many run-on sentences. It can get a little disorientating, but I guess that's the end of the world for you. I actually found it incredibly effective in creating the air of blind panic that Saramago clearly wanted to impart. People fumbling around in the whiteness, hoping no one around means them harm and being powerless to do anything about it if they did.
Someone once said: "You are who you are when no one is watching." And in this world, no one is watching. Fear reigns and some will choose to exploit the fear or succumb to it. I thought it was a frightening and believable portrait of the disintegration of society.
Very highly recommended.
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Then imagine you go to the trusty health professionals so they can get to the bottom of it... the doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you, but you're confident he/she will figure it out and prescribe accordingly. And then the doctor goes blind. But not just him - everyone you have come into contact with is experiencing the same sudden white blindness. The condition spreads and takes hold within a few hours... soon this contagious blindness is spreading like wildfire and no one knows how to cure it.
This book is so frightening and so... realistic. Blindness is not an alien concept like monsters and ghosts, neither are contagious diseases. So imagine a disease that prompted sudden blindness; that spread from one person to another quicker than the common cold. This book feels like a story that could happen.
One of the main issues readers have with this - if they have any - is the writing style. It's written in huge blocks of text with little punctuation, no quotation marks, and many run-on sentences. It can get a little disorientating, but I guess that's the end of the world for you. I actually found it incredibly effective in creating the air of blind panic that Saramago clearly wanted to impart. People fumbling around in the whiteness, hoping no one around means them harm and being powerless to do anything about it if they did.
Someone once said: "You are who you are when no one is watching." And in this world, no one is watching. Fear reigns and some will choose to exploit the fear or succumb to it. I thought it was a frightening and believable portrait of the disintegration of society.
Very highly recommended.
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June 17, 2021
廿賳 賰賳鬲 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 鬲乇賶 賮丕賳馗乇
廿賳 賰賳鬲 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 鬲賳馗乇 賮乇丕賯亘
毓賳丿賲丕 賰賳鬲 兀賰鬲亘 丕賱賯氐丞 丕賱賯氐賷乇丞 賮賷 賵賯鬲賺 賲丕
賰賳鬲 丿丕卅賲丕賸 亘睾乇賷夭丞 丿丕禺賱賷丞 賱丕卮毓賵乇賷丞 賵亘鬲氐賲賷賲 賱丕 兀毓賱賲 賲賳 兀賷賳 賷賳亘毓 鬲賲丕賲丕賸
賰賳鬲 兀丨丕賵賱 兀賳 兀鬲乇賰 丕賱兀爻賲丕亍 ..丕賱爻賲丕鬲 丕賱丿丕賱丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賲丨賱賷丞 賵丕賱丕亘鬲毓丕丿 毓賲丕 賯丿 賷賮氐丨 丕賱賴賵賷丞 丕賱賲賰丕賳賷丞
賵丿賵賲丕賸 賰賳鬲購 兀賮囟賱 兀賳 兀鬲乇賰 丕賱兀卮禺丕氐 亘賱丕 廿爻賲 兀賵 賵胤賳 賵兀亘賯賶 毓賱賶 廿賳爻丕賳賷鬲賴賲 賮賯胤 賵丕賱鬲賷 賯丿 鬲噩毓賱 丕賱丨丿孬 賲賲賰賳 賵賯賵毓賴 賮賷 兀賷 賲賰丕賳 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲
亘毓賷丿丕賸 毓賳 丕賱丿賷賳 兀賵 丕賱噩賳爻
賵賱匕丕 賲賳 亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵兀賳丕 賲爻鬲賲鬲毓丞 亘丕賳毓丿丕賲 丕賱賲丨賱賷賾丞 丕賱賵丕囟丨 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
賮賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱兀卮禺丕氐 賯丿 賷賰賵賳賵丕 賲賳 兀賷 賲賰丕賳
賵賴匕賴 丕賱丨賰賵賲丞 賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 兀賷 丨賰賵賲丞
賵乇丿賵丿 丕賱兀賮毓丕賱 鬲毓賵丿 廿賱賶 丕賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 毓賳丿賲丕 賱賲 賷賰賳 賴賳丕賰 丨丿賵丿 兀賵 賲匕丕賴亘
鬲乇鬲丿 廿賱賶 丕賱卮毓賵乇賷賳 丕賱兀賵賱賷賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賯丿 兀氐亘丨丕 毓丕丿丞 賱丿賷賰 賱丿乇噩丞 兀賳賰 賱賲 鬲毓丿 鬲卮毓乇 亘賴賲丕
丕賱乇睾亘丞 賮賷 丕賱兀賰賱 貙貙賵賯囟丕亍 丕賱丨丕噩丞
賵毓亘乇 賮丕賳鬲丕夭賷丕 睾乇賷亘丞 賲賳 賳賵毓賴丕 賷毓賵丿 亘賰 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 廿賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賵賱賵賷丕鬲
賵胤賵丕賱 兀丨丿丕孬賴丕 鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賰 鬲賵丕噩賴 賳賮爻賰 亘賰賱 囟毓賮賴丕 貙貙 兀賳丕賳賷鬲賴丕 貙貙 賵賯爻賵鬲賴丕
賵亘賯丕亍 賯胤乇丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱囟賲賷乇 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷 賮賷賴丕
賮丕賳鬲賴賷賳丕 廿賱賶 "鬲賱賵賷賳 囟賲賷乇賳丕 亘丨賲乇丞 丕賱丿賲 賵賲賱賵丨丞 丕賱丿賲毓" 賵丨賵賱賳丕 兀毓賷賳賳丕 廿賱賶 "賲乇丕賷丕 丿丕禺賱賷丞" 賯丿 鬲氐賷亘 丕丨賷丕賳丕 賮賷 毓賰爻 賲丕 賳卮毓乇 亘賴 賵賳賳賰乇賴 亘賯賵賱賳丕
賵賯丿 鬲禺賷亘 賰孬賷乇丕賸 禺丕氐丞 廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 丿賵丕禺賱賳丕 賮賷 噩賲賵丿 丕賱氐禺乇 賵禺賵丕亍 丕賱氐丨乇丕亍
賰賲 賴賵 毓賲賷賯 賳賵賲 丕賱丨噩丕乇丞
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賷賯賵賱 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵
丕賱兀丿亘 賵丨丿賴 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 賮毓賱 卮賷亍. 賰賱 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 丕賱毓馗賷賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰購鬲亘鬲 毓賱賶 賲乇賾 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賱賲 鬲爻鬲胤毓 兀賳 鬲丨賵賱 丿賵賳 丕賱賵囟毓 丕賱賰丕乇孬賷 丕賱匕賷 賳毓賷卮賴. 賲賳 丕賱囟乇賵乇賷 兀賷囟丕賻 兀賱丕 賳賳鬲馗乇 賵氐賵賱 "賲禺賱賾氐" 賲丕貙 賷兀鬲賷 賱賷丨賱 噩賲賷毓 賲卮丕賰賱賳丕
賲丕 丕賱匕賷 賷購禺賷賮 賴購賳賭賭丕責
賱賷爻鬲 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賮賷 匕丕鬲賴丕 賴賷 丕賱賲禺賷賮丞 賵廿賳賲丕 鬲毓乇賾賷 廿賳爻丕賳賷鬲賰 亘賴匕丕 丕賱卮賰賱 賴賵 丕賱賲禺賷賮
賴賵 丕賱匕賷 賷丿賮毓賰 賱賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 毓丿賷丿丞 賱鬲賳丕爻賷 賲丕 賯丿 賯乇兀鬲賴 亘毓丿 賰賱 賲賵賯賮 賷孬亘鬲 賱賰 賲丿賶
毓賲丕賰 兀賳鬲 丕賱卮禺氐賷
丕賱赖賱毓
丨賷丕丞 丕賱賳亘丕鬲 兀賷囟丕 爻鬲賳丨賵 丕賱賲賳丨賶 賳賮爻賴 賱賵 賱賲 鬲賰賳 噩匕賵乇賴丕 鬲睾賵氐 毓賲賷賯丕賸 賮賷 丕賱鬲乇亘丞
賵賰賲 爻賷賰賵賳 噩賲賷賱丕賸 兀賳 鬲乇賶 兀卮噩丕乇 丕賱睾丕亘丞 鬲賮乇 賴丕乇亘丞 丕賲丕賲 丕賱賳丕乇
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鬲丨賵賱鬲 賲丿賷賳丞 亘兀賰賲賱賴丕 廿賱賶 賲賲賱賰丞 毓賲賷丕賳
賰賵賲丞 賮囟賱丕鬲
賯丕爻賷丞 貙貙賵丨卮賷丞 貙貙賲爻賰賷賳丞
賵毓賱賷賰 丕賱丌賳 兀賳 鬲賮賰乇 噩賷丿丕賸 賵丕賳 鬲賳馗乇 賲賳 丨賵賱賰
賵鬲賯丕乇賳 亘賷賳 毓賲丕賳丕 賳丨賳 賵丕賱賮囟賱丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨賷胤 亘乇賵丨賳丕 賲賳 賰賱 噩丕賳亘
賵亘賷賳 毓賲賷丕賳 賮賷 賲丿賷賳丞 睾丕氐賵丕 丨鬲賶 丕賱賳禺丕毓 賮賷 賲夭亘賱鬲賴賲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱賰亘乇賶
賱賲丕 丕禺鬲丕乇 爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱毓鬲賲丞 亘賷囟丕亍責
鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 鬲賯賵賱 兀賳賴 乇亘賲丕 兀乇丕丿 賱廿賳爻丕賳賷鬲賰 丕賱亘丿亍 亘氐賮丨丞 噩丿賷丿丞
賵鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 鬲賯賵賱 丕賳賴 賳丕馗乇 亘賷賳 亘賷丕囟 毓鬲賲鬲賴賲 賵亘賷丕囟 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 丕賱鬲賷 賳爻賷乇 賮賷賴丕 毓賲賷丕賳丕 賵賳丨賳 賱丕 賳丿乇賷
毓賳 賵賯鬲 氐丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賳丕 鬲丨鬲 兀賯丿丕賲賳丕 賵賳丨賳 賳賴匕賷 亘賲丿賶 鬲賮鬲丨賳丕 賵毓賯賱賳丕 丕賱賲爻鬲賳賷乇
賯購賱 賱兀毓賲賶 兀賳鬲賻 丨乇貙 丕賮鬲丨 賱賴 丕賱亘丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳 賷賮氐賱賴 毓賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲 貙 賵賯賱 賱賴 孬丕賳賷丞賻
丕匕賴亘 兀賳鬲 丨乇
賱賳 賷匕賴亘
爻賷亘賯賶 賮賷 賲賰丕賳賴 賵爻胤 丕賱胤乇賷賯 賴購賵 賵丕賱丌禺乇賵賳 貙 賲乇毓購賵亘賽賷賳 賱丕 賷賻毓乇賮購賵賳 兀賻賷賳 賷賻匕賴亘購賵賳
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賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 賵毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賳丨卮乇 賲毓 丕賱賲氐丕亘賷賳 丕賱兀賵丕卅賱 賮賷 賲卮賮賶 賲噩丕賳賷賳 賲賴噩賵乇
-賳毓賲 兀賳鬲 鬲賳丨卮乇 賲毓賴賲 賱兀賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賷賳賯賱賰 廿賱賶 丕賱丨丿孬 賳賮爻賴
賵賱匕丕 鬲卮毓乇 亘乇丕卅丨丞 丕賱賳鬲賳 賵丕賱丨乇賲丕賳 賵丕賱賵噩毓 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷 賮賷 兀賯爻賶 賵兀賯氐賶 賲毓丕賳賷賴
賴賳丕 鬲亘丿兀 賮賷 丕賱賳馗乇 丨賵賱賰 賵丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 丕賱毓賯賱丕亍 丕賱匕賷 鬲毓賷卮賴 兀賳鬲
賰賱 賯胤乇丞 禺乇丕亘 賲賳 丨賵賱賰 賯丿 兀毓胤丕賴丕 卮禺氐 兀賵 噩賲丕毓丞 賲賳 丨賵賱賰 賲氐胤賱丨 賲丕
廿賳 丕賱氐賵乇 賱丕 鬲乇賶
廿賳 丕賱氐賵乇 鬲乇賶 亘兀毓賷賳 賲賳 賷賳馗乇賵賳 廿賱賷賴丕
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賯乇亘 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賰 賮賷 丿丕乇 丕賱毓亘丕丿丞 賵氐賵乇 丕賱賯丿賷爻賷賳 賲賳 丨賵賱賰 賯丿 胤賱賷鬲 毓賷賳丕賴丕 亘丕賱兀亘賷囟 賵賵囟毓鬲 毓氐丕亘丕鬲 毓賱賷賴丕
賮賲丕丿丕賲 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 乇丐賷丞 丕賱氐賵乇
賮賷噩亘 兀賱丕 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱氐賵乇 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賶 乇丐賷鬲賴賲 亘丕賱賲賯丕亘賱
賮賯丿 賯乇乇 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 兀賳 賷毓賱賳 兀賳 丕賱賱賴 丕賱賰賱賷 丕賱賯丿乇丞 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賷乇賶
賵亘賴匕丕 賷鬲丨賯賯 丕賱賰丕亘賵爻 賮賷 兀毓賱賶 氐賵乇賴
丕賱丨亘 丕賱匕賷 賷賯賵賱 丕賱賳丕爻 丕賳賴 兀毓賲賶 賱賴 氐賵鬲賴 丕賱禺丕氐
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丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賮賷 乇爻賲賴丕 賵胤乇賷賯丞 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 丕賱毓噩賷亘丞 賵丕賱賲賲鬲毓丞 賮賷 賵氐賮賴丕 賴賷 賵丕丨丿丞 賲賳 毓賵丕賲賱 丕賱噩匕亘 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
兀賳鬲 鬲鬲丕亘毓 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賳毓賲 賵賱賰賳賰 賮賷 丕賱兀睾賱亘 鬲鬲丕亘毓 乇丿賵丿 兀賮毓丕賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 毓賱賶 丕禺鬲賱丕賮賴丕 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丕賱丨丿孬 匕丕鬲賴
兀賳鬲 鬲賯毓 賮賷 睾乇丕賲賴賲 噩賲賷毓丕賸
賴匕賴 丕賱賰丕卅賳丕鬲 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 亘賱丕 兀爻賲丕亍
鬲丨亘 賰賱亘 丕賱丿賲賵毓 賵丕賱賮鬲丕丞 匕丕鬲 丕賱賳馗丕乇丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 賵丕賱賰賴賱 匕丕 丕賱毓賷賳 丕賱賲毓氐賵亘丞 賵夭賵噩丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲馗賱 賲亘賯賷丞 毓賱賶 亘氐乇賴丕 賮賷 賲賲賱賰丞 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳
賲賳 丕賱噩丿賷乇 亘丕賱匕賰乇 兀賳 胤乇賷賯丞 丕賱爻乇丿 賵賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱丨賵丕乇 賲賳 兀毓噩亘 賵兀賲鬲毓 賲丕 乇兀賷鬲
賮賱丕 賴賵 丨賵丕乇 亘丕賱賲毓賳賶 亘丕賱賲毓乇賵賮 賵賱丕 丕賱爻乇丿 賷禺賱賵 賲賳 賳亘乇丞 爻丕禺乇丞 賲丕賰乇丞 賱丕 丕爻鬲胤賷毓 賵氐賮賴丕 賮兀賳鬲 鬲丨鬲丕噩 賱賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 亘賳賮爻賰
賲賷夭丞 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賷 兀賳賴丕 鬲乇賷賰 丿賵丕禺賱賰 賵鬲毓乇賷 賲禺丕賵賮賰 丕賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 亘爻禺乇賷丞 賲丐賱賲丞 賵賲賲鬲毓丞 賲毓丕賸
賰賱賳丕 毓賲賷丕賳 亘卮賰賱賺 兀賵 亘丌禺乇
賵賱賰賳賳丕 賱丕 賳丿乇賷
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亘毓囟 丕賱賱賵丨丕鬲 丕賱卮賴賷乇丞 毓賳 丕賱毓賲賶
丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 賷賯賵丿賵賳 毓賲賷丕賳丕賸 賱亘賷鬲乇 亘乇賵噩賷賱
賵噩亘丞 丕賱兀毓賲賶 賱亘賷賰丕爻賵
丕賱兀賲 丕賱毓賲賷丕亍 賱賱廿賷噩賵賳 卮賷賱賱賷
Theodule Augustin Ribot _ 鬲賵賲丕爻 賵賲毓賱賲賴 丕賱兀毓賲賶
Benigne Gagneraux -兀賵丿賷亘 丕賱兀毓賲賶 賲毓 兀胤賮丕賱賴
Giovanni Antonio Galli -丕賱賲爻賷丨 賷卮賮賷 乇噩賱丕賸 兀毓賲賶
March 13, 2019
鈥漈he advantage enjoyed by these blind men was what might be called the illusion of light. In fact, it made no difference to them whether it was day or night, the first light of dawn or the evening twilight, the silent hours of early morning or the bustling din of noon, these blind people were for ever surrounded by a resplendent whiteness, like the sun shining through mist. For the latter, blindness did not mean being plunged into banal darkness, but living inside a luminous halo.鈥�
We have all experienced blindness. Not that long ago I woke up in the middle of the night. There was no reassuring red glow of the digital clock by my bed nor the diffused yellow light from the streetlight making slat patterns across my floor . The dark was ink vat black, not gray or any other color on the spectrum, dark soul black.
My eyes ached from holding them open so wide trying to capture any stray light that could reassure me that the wonderful array of cones and rods in my eyes were still functioning. Any creak or thump took on so much more significance giving my active imagination ample incentive to flash an array of possible horrible scenarios. My heart rate climbs. I wondered if I鈥檝e went blind. I think about the room full of books that will have no more significance to me than a pile of bricks or cement blocks, something I held reverence for that is now less than useless. I lay there in various stages of disbelief and reassurances until a sliver of light announced the dawn and my eyes, my beautiful eyes, luxuriated in those first rays of a new day. I could see.
The influenza epidemic of 1918 was one of the most terrifying events to happen to humanity in the 20th century even eclipsing two horrific world wars. 50 million people worldwide died suffocating from fluid filled lungs. Doctors were baffled, unable to find a cure or slow down the symptoms to allow the human immune system to have a chance. The disease had no compassion or any sense of a person鈥檚 economic situation, rich, poor, young and old all died. The average life expectancy in the United States dropped by twelve years.
And then it just disappeared. As if a magic number of dead had been reached. Can you imagine the fear that any flu symptoms must have inspired in people for years after the event?
The Blind Eyes Looked Fine.
This book is about such an epidemic. An epidemic that spares no one. It begins with a man going blind while sitting in his car at a traffic light. He is brought to an opthamologist and his trip to see the doctor spreads this contagion at the speed of a prairie fire. The opthamologist is in the midst of researching this baffling disease when he goes blind as well. The government on the verge of panic rounds up all those infected in an attempt to contain the spread of the disease. The wife of the eye doctor packs his suitcase and even though she can still see packs her own clothes as well. When the government people come to get him she goes with him. They are taken to a vacant mental hospital. At first there are only a handful of people and then there are hundreds of people crammed into this facility. Soldiers are left to guard them and feed them. As more soldiers go blind fears become reality and in one such moment of desperation the soldiers fire into the crowd of blind people. The soldiers retreat and the blind are left with dead bodies to bury and spilled food to collect.
鈥漈heir hunger, however, had the strength only to take them three steps forward, reason intervened and warned them that for anybody imprudent enough to advance there was danger lurking in those lifeless bodies, above all, in that blood, who could tell what vapors, what emanations, what poisonous miasmas might not already be oozing forth from the open wounds of the corpses. They鈥檙e dead, they can鈥檛 do any harm, someone remarked, the intention was to reassure himself and others, but his words made matters worse, it was true that these blind internees were dead, that they could not move, see, could neither stir nor breath, but who can say that this white blindness is not some spiritual malaise, and if we assume this to be the case then the spirits of those blind casualties have never been as free as they are now, released from their bodies, and therefore free to do whatever they like, above all, to do evil, which as everyone knows, has always been the easiest thing to do.鈥�
Any supernatural element, spirits or otherwise take a backseat to living breathing humans when it comes to perpetrating evil. A gang of men, empowered by a gun wielding leader, take control of the food. All of the internees are asked to bring all their valuables to be assessed and traded for food and water. I had to almost laugh at this point because these thugs are trapped in pre-blindness thinking. What value will jewelry or paper money have with people that can鈥檛 see? A good belt or a pair of shoes or a glass of water or a sandwich are the only things of any real value anymore. Well there is one other thing that will continue to have value.
Women.
The inmates have been split into groups by rooms. After the valuables have been exhausted as a bartering tool for food and water the thugs tell the groups that if they want to eat they need to send their women to them. Hunger is all consuming. When you are hungry you can not think about anything else other than finding food. Your body, as part of our survival instinct, makes you very uncomfortable. We can all say what we would be capable of doing and not capable of doing when we are sitting in a bar casually munching on free peanuts and pretzels between pints of beer. The fact of the matter is most of us have never felt real hunger. We have had moments where our stomachs rumble or experienced a headache due to a missed meal, but true hunger, not eating for days hunger we can only speculate about what that is like.
One man in the group sounding like some of the Republican candidates in this last election said:
鈥漌hat did it matter if the women had to go there twice a month to give theses men what nature gave them to give.鈥�
I think even the women had no idea what it really would mean to be raped. They have all had sex, no blushing virgins among them. They were hungry too and after some speculation decide that they need to do this not only to feed themselves, but also their men. It is way beyond anything they could even imagine. It was horrible and Jose Saramago pulls no punches. Being raped by one man is bad enough, but when being raped by several men a woman has become an object, not even an object of desire, but merely a receptacle for lust. Being attractive, or smart or any of the things that made men desire her, in the world before blindness, are suddenly immaterial. She is faceless, a base unit to be used and abused devoid of the uniqueness that identify all of us beyond being just a male or a female.
As the world goes blind the wife of the doctor is left unaffected. She continues to help where she can, but is reluctant to let everyone know she can see. She would be a slave to the group if they ever found out she could still see. She breaks out with a group of people all identified by their past professions or by some other identifying marker. We never do learn any of their names as if their identities have escaped them with their loss of vision.
There is a sweet scene when the doctor and his wife first arrive back at their home. 鈥漈he doctor put his hand into the inside pocket of his new jacket and brought out the keys. He held them in mid-air, waiting, his wife gently guided his hand towards the keyhole.鈥�The world is in chaos as blind people stumble everywhere looking for food and shelter. It is truly a horrific vision of a world disintegrating and brings home to me just how vulnerable we all are to a pandemic event or the loss of the electrical grid or for those with more fanciful terrors a zombie apocalypse.
Will you kill someone to live?
Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago by keeping the wife of the doctor immune to the disease gives himself a conduit to describe events. Without her the novel would have been difficult to write and would have been more difficult for us to read. We need vision and if we don鈥檛 have it ourselves we certainly need someone to provide it for us. There are lots of great themes in the novel, exploring the human condition and how we fail ourselves; and yet, eventually overcome the most severe circumstances. The text is a block of words with few paragraph breaks or markers to help us keep track of who is talking. This certainly adds to the difficulty of reading the novel, but I must counsel you to persevere. You will come away from the novel knowing you have experienced something, a grand vision of the disintegration of civilization and certainly you will reevaluate what is most important in your life. This is a novel that does what a great novel is supposed to do; it reveals what we keep hidden from ourselves.
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We have all experienced blindness. Not that long ago I woke up in the middle of the night. There was no reassuring red glow of the digital clock by my bed nor the diffused yellow light from the streetlight making slat patterns across my floor . The dark was ink vat black, not gray or any other color on the spectrum, dark soul black.
My eyes ached from holding them open so wide trying to capture any stray light that could reassure me that the wonderful array of cones and rods in my eyes were still functioning. Any creak or thump took on so much more significance giving my active imagination ample incentive to flash an array of possible horrible scenarios. My heart rate climbs. I wondered if I鈥檝e went blind. I think about the room full of books that will have no more significance to me than a pile of bricks or cement blocks, something I held reverence for that is now less than useless. I lay there in various stages of disbelief and reassurances until a sliver of light announced the dawn and my eyes, my beautiful eyes, luxuriated in those first rays of a new day. I could see.
The influenza epidemic of 1918 was one of the most terrifying events to happen to humanity in the 20th century even eclipsing two horrific world wars. 50 million people worldwide died suffocating from fluid filled lungs. Doctors were baffled, unable to find a cure or slow down the symptoms to allow the human immune system to have a chance. The disease had no compassion or any sense of a person鈥檚 economic situation, rich, poor, young and old all died. The average life expectancy in the United States dropped by twelve years.
And then it just disappeared. As if a magic number of dead had been reached. Can you imagine the fear that any flu symptoms must have inspired in people for years after the event?
The Blind Eyes Looked Fine.
This book is about such an epidemic. An epidemic that spares no one. It begins with a man going blind while sitting in his car at a traffic light. He is brought to an opthamologist and his trip to see the doctor spreads this contagion at the speed of a prairie fire. The opthamologist is in the midst of researching this baffling disease when he goes blind as well. The government on the verge of panic rounds up all those infected in an attempt to contain the spread of the disease. The wife of the eye doctor packs his suitcase and even though she can still see packs her own clothes as well. When the government people come to get him she goes with him. They are taken to a vacant mental hospital. At first there are only a handful of people and then there are hundreds of people crammed into this facility. Soldiers are left to guard them and feed them. As more soldiers go blind fears become reality and in one such moment of desperation the soldiers fire into the crowd of blind people. The soldiers retreat and the blind are left with dead bodies to bury and spilled food to collect.
鈥漈heir hunger, however, had the strength only to take them three steps forward, reason intervened and warned them that for anybody imprudent enough to advance there was danger lurking in those lifeless bodies, above all, in that blood, who could tell what vapors, what emanations, what poisonous miasmas might not already be oozing forth from the open wounds of the corpses. They鈥檙e dead, they can鈥檛 do any harm, someone remarked, the intention was to reassure himself and others, but his words made matters worse, it was true that these blind internees were dead, that they could not move, see, could neither stir nor breath, but who can say that this white blindness is not some spiritual malaise, and if we assume this to be the case then the spirits of those blind casualties have never been as free as they are now, released from their bodies, and therefore free to do whatever they like, above all, to do evil, which as everyone knows, has always been the easiest thing to do.鈥�
Any supernatural element, spirits or otherwise take a backseat to living breathing humans when it comes to perpetrating evil. A gang of men, empowered by a gun wielding leader, take control of the food. All of the internees are asked to bring all their valuables to be assessed and traded for food and water. I had to almost laugh at this point because these thugs are trapped in pre-blindness thinking. What value will jewelry or paper money have with people that can鈥檛 see? A good belt or a pair of shoes or a glass of water or a sandwich are the only things of any real value anymore. Well there is one other thing that will continue to have value.
Women.
The inmates have been split into groups by rooms. After the valuables have been exhausted as a bartering tool for food and water the thugs tell the groups that if they want to eat they need to send their women to them. Hunger is all consuming. When you are hungry you can not think about anything else other than finding food. Your body, as part of our survival instinct, makes you very uncomfortable. We can all say what we would be capable of doing and not capable of doing when we are sitting in a bar casually munching on free peanuts and pretzels between pints of beer. The fact of the matter is most of us have never felt real hunger. We have had moments where our stomachs rumble or experienced a headache due to a missed meal, but true hunger, not eating for days hunger we can only speculate about what that is like.
One man in the group sounding like some of the Republican candidates in this last election said:
鈥漌hat did it matter if the women had to go there twice a month to give theses men what nature gave them to give.鈥�
I think even the women had no idea what it really would mean to be raped. They have all had sex, no blushing virgins among them. They were hungry too and after some speculation decide that they need to do this not only to feed themselves, but also their men. It is way beyond anything they could even imagine. It was horrible and Jose Saramago pulls no punches. Being raped by one man is bad enough, but when being raped by several men a woman has become an object, not even an object of desire, but merely a receptacle for lust. Being attractive, or smart or any of the things that made men desire her, in the world before blindness, are suddenly immaterial. She is faceless, a base unit to be used and abused devoid of the uniqueness that identify all of us beyond being just a male or a female.
As the world goes blind the wife of the doctor is left unaffected. She continues to help where she can, but is reluctant to let everyone know she can see. She would be a slave to the group if they ever found out she could still see. She breaks out with a group of people all identified by their past professions or by some other identifying marker. We never do learn any of their names as if their identities have escaped them with their loss of vision.
There is a sweet scene when the doctor and his wife first arrive back at their home. 鈥漈he doctor put his hand into the inside pocket of his new jacket and brought out the keys. He held them in mid-air, waiting, his wife gently guided his hand towards the keyhole.鈥�The world is in chaos as blind people stumble everywhere looking for food and shelter. It is truly a horrific vision of a world disintegrating and brings home to me just how vulnerable we all are to a pandemic event or the loss of the electrical grid or for those with more fanciful terrors a zombie apocalypse.
Will you kill someone to live?
Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago by keeping the wife of the doctor immune to the disease gives himself a conduit to describe events. Without her the novel would have been difficult to write and would have been more difficult for us to read. We need vision and if we don鈥檛 have it ourselves we certainly need someone to provide it for us. There are lots of great themes in the novel, exploring the human condition and how we fail ourselves; and yet, eventually overcome the most severe circumstances. The text is a block of words with few paragraph breaks or markers to help us keep track of who is talking. This certainly adds to the difficulty of reading the novel, but I must counsel you to persevere. You will come away from the novel knowing you have experienced something, a grand vision of the disintegration of civilization and certainly you will reevaluate what is most important in your life. This is a novel that does what a great novel is supposed to do; it reveals what we keep hidden from ourselves.
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January 22, 2025
Un roman despre o epidemie, nu-i a葯a?
Nu mai e nevoie s膬 rezum intriga, o 葯tie toat膬 lumea. S-au scris sute 葯i sute de recenzii despre 鈥瀍seul鈥� lui Saramago, publicat 卯n 1995. A mai fost 葯i filmul din 2008. A葯 men葲ona faptul c膬 Jos茅 Saramago a scris romanul despre 鈥瀘rbire鈥� la 72-73 de ani, exemplu uimitor de fecunditate tardiv膬. 脦n treac膬t fie spus, prima carte notabil膬 a prozatorului portughez a fost publicat膬 de el c卯nd 卯mplinise 60 de ani: Memorialul m膬n膬stirii.
M-am 卯ntrebat de ce a ales autorul s膬 pun膬 dialogurile 卯n text, de ce a renun葲at adeseori la semnele de punctua葲ie, de ce alineatele s卯nt foarte rare... Lectura devine astfel mai dificil膬, unii renun葲膬 pur 葯i simplu s膬 termine romanul. B膬nuiesc c膬 Saramago 葯tia bine asta. Nu este, cred, un simplu procedeu 鈥瀙oetic鈥�, o g膬selni葲膬 grafic膬, lipsit膬 de sens. V膬 aminti葲i, cred, de poetul e. m. cummings, care a minusculat totul, 葯i versurile, 葯i numele propriu.
Renun葲卯nd la paragrafe, la dialogul introdus prin liniu葲e, Saramago sugereaz膬, am impresia, c膬 Eseu despre orbire este o carte care se cuvine a fi citit膬 lent, tacticos, fraz膬 dup膬 fraz膬, propozi葲ie cu propozi葲ie, cuv卯nt dup膬 cuv卯nt, 鈥瀕angsam鈥�, cum zic nem葲ii 葯i cum cerea 卯ntr-un text foarte cunoscut Nietzsche. 脦n fond, nici n-o po葲i citi altfel: nu ai cum s膬ri peste paragrafe 葯i descrieri, fiindc膬 nu exist膬 paragrafe 葯i descrieri (卯n num膬r prea mare). Dac膬 te apuci s膬 cite葯ti o carte de Saramago, e bine s膬 fii gata pentru acest efort de aten葲ie, 葯tii c膬 vei fi r膬spl膬tit la sf卯r葯itul lecturii. Un text de Saramago d膬 卯ntotdeauna de g卯ndit. Naratorul lui (ironic c卯t cuprinde) ne pune mintea la 卯ncercare. A葯 observa 葯i faptul c膬, 卯n Eseu despre orbire, naratorul / povestitorul nu este orb, el vede ceea ce orbii din casa de nebuni, din ora葯, nu s卯nt 卯n stare s膬 vad膬 (cu excep葲ia so葲iei medicului oftalmolog).
Nu exist膬 nici nume proprii. Personajele s卯nt identificate astfel: so牛ia medicului, b膬tr卯nul cu leg膬tur膬 neagr膬, fata cu ochelari negri, orbul contabil, oarba cu insomnia, camerista, asistentul farmacist, femeia cu bricheta etc. A葯adar, oricine poate fi orb, orbirea nu 葲ine seama de identitatea precis膬 a personajelor. 脦i transform膬 pe oameni 卯n anonimi. Nu o mai lungesc. 脦n 卯ncheiere, voi transcrie c卯teva pasaje. Le voi l膬sa, desigur, ca 卯n carte:
鈥濧 fost vina mea, suspina ea, ce-i drept e drept, nu se putea nega, dar e la fel de adev膬rat, 卯n caz c-ar fi o m卯ng卯iere, c膬, dac膬 卯nainte de fiecare gest, am 卯ncerca s膬-i prevedem toate consecin牛ele, s膬 le c卯nt膬rim serios, mai 卯nt卯i pe cele imediate, apoi pe cele probabile, posibile, cele imaginabile, n-am reu艧i s膬 ne urnim un pas din locul unde primul g卯nd ne-a f膬cut s膬 ne oprim鈥�;
鈥濴a ce-mi ajut膬 c膬 v膬d. O ajutase ca s膬 艧tie despre oroare mai multe dec卯t 卯艧i 卯nchipuise vreodat膬, o ajutase ca s膬-艧i doreasc膬 s膬 fie oarb膬, la nimic altceva...鈥�;
鈥瀉ici nimeni nu se mai poate salva, orbire e 艧i asta, s膬 tr膬ie艧ti 卯ntr-o lume unde s-a terminat speran牛a鈥�;
鈥瀊膬tr卯nul cu leg膬tur膬 neagr膬 spuse, Mai bine mor de un glon牛 dec卯t 卯n fl膬c膬ri, p膬rea glasul experien牛ei...鈥�;
鈥瀘mul 卯ncepe prin a ceda 卯n lucrurile m膬runte 艧i sf卯r艧e艧te pierz卯nd tot sensul vie牛ii鈥�;
鈥濬rica orbe艧te, spuse t卯n膬ra cu ochelari negri, S卯nt bune cuvintele, eram orbi 卯n clipa c卯nd am orbit, frica ne-a orbit, frica ne va 牛ine orbi...鈥�;
鈥瀉艧a e lumea f膬cut膬, 卯nc卯t adev膬rul trebuie s膬 se deghizeze de multe ori 卯n minciun膬 ca s膬-艧i ating膬 scopurile鈥�;
鈥瀎useser膬 p膬r膬site [de oameni] toate laboratoarele, unde nu le r膬m卯nea bacteriilor alt膬 solu牛ie de supravie牛uire dec卯t s膬 se devoreze 卯ntre ele...鈥�
脦n concluzie, un roman care 卯葯i merit膬 卯ntru totul celebritatea.
Nu mai e nevoie s膬 rezum intriga, o 葯tie toat膬 lumea. S-au scris sute 葯i sute de recenzii despre 鈥瀍seul鈥� lui Saramago, publicat 卯n 1995. A mai fost 葯i filmul din 2008. A葯 men葲ona faptul c膬 Jos茅 Saramago a scris romanul despre 鈥瀘rbire鈥� la 72-73 de ani, exemplu uimitor de fecunditate tardiv膬. 脦n treac膬t fie spus, prima carte notabil膬 a prozatorului portughez a fost publicat膬 de el c卯nd 卯mplinise 60 de ani: Memorialul m膬n膬stirii.
M-am 卯ntrebat de ce a ales autorul s膬 pun膬 dialogurile 卯n text, de ce a renun葲at adeseori la semnele de punctua葲ie, de ce alineatele s卯nt foarte rare... Lectura devine astfel mai dificil膬, unii renun葲膬 pur 葯i simplu s膬 termine romanul. B膬nuiesc c膬 Saramago 葯tia bine asta. Nu este, cred, un simplu procedeu 鈥瀙oetic鈥�, o g膬selni葲膬 grafic膬, lipsit膬 de sens. V膬 aminti葲i, cred, de poetul e. m. cummings, care a minusculat totul, 葯i versurile, 葯i numele propriu.
Renun葲卯nd la paragrafe, la dialogul introdus prin liniu葲e, Saramago sugereaz膬, am impresia, c膬 Eseu despre orbire este o carte care se cuvine a fi citit膬 lent, tacticos, fraz膬 dup膬 fraz膬, propozi葲ie cu propozi葲ie, cuv卯nt dup膬 cuv卯nt, 鈥瀕angsam鈥�, cum zic nem葲ii 葯i cum cerea 卯ntr-un text foarte cunoscut Nietzsche. 脦n fond, nici n-o po葲i citi altfel: nu ai cum s膬ri peste paragrafe 葯i descrieri, fiindc膬 nu exist膬 paragrafe 葯i descrieri (卯n num膬r prea mare). Dac膬 te apuci s膬 cite葯ti o carte de Saramago, e bine s膬 fii gata pentru acest efort de aten葲ie, 葯tii c膬 vei fi r膬spl膬tit la sf卯r葯itul lecturii. Un text de Saramago d膬 卯ntotdeauna de g卯ndit. Naratorul lui (ironic c卯t cuprinde) ne pune mintea la 卯ncercare. A葯 observa 葯i faptul c膬, 卯n Eseu despre orbire, naratorul / povestitorul nu este orb, el vede ceea ce orbii din casa de nebuni, din ora葯, nu s卯nt 卯n stare s膬 vad膬 (cu excep葲ia so葲iei medicului oftalmolog).
Nu exist膬 nici nume proprii. Personajele s卯nt identificate astfel: so牛ia medicului, b膬tr卯nul cu leg膬tur膬 neagr膬, fata cu ochelari negri, orbul contabil, oarba cu insomnia, camerista, asistentul farmacist, femeia cu bricheta etc. A葯adar, oricine poate fi orb, orbirea nu 葲ine seama de identitatea precis膬 a personajelor. 脦i transform膬 pe oameni 卯n anonimi. Nu o mai lungesc. 脦n 卯ncheiere, voi transcrie c卯teva pasaje. Le voi l膬sa, desigur, ca 卯n carte:
鈥濧 fost vina mea, suspina ea, ce-i drept e drept, nu se putea nega, dar e la fel de adev膬rat, 卯n caz c-ar fi o m卯ng卯iere, c膬, dac膬 卯nainte de fiecare gest, am 卯ncerca s膬-i prevedem toate consecin牛ele, s膬 le c卯nt膬rim serios, mai 卯nt卯i pe cele imediate, apoi pe cele probabile, posibile, cele imaginabile, n-am reu艧i s膬 ne urnim un pas din locul unde primul g卯nd ne-a f膬cut s膬 ne oprim鈥�;
鈥濴a ce-mi ajut膬 c膬 v膬d. O ajutase ca s膬 艧tie despre oroare mai multe dec卯t 卯艧i 卯nchipuise vreodat膬, o ajutase ca s膬-艧i doreasc膬 s膬 fie oarb膬, la nimic altceva...鈥�;
鈥瀉ici nimeni nu se mai poate salva, orbire e 艧i asta, s膬 tr膬ie艧ti 卯ntr-o lume unde s-a terminat speran牛a鈥�;
鈥瀊膬tr卯nul cu leg膬tur膬 neagr膬 spuse, Mai bine mor de un glon牛 dec卯t 卯n fl膬c膬ri, p膬rea glasul experien牛ei...鈥�;
鈥瀘mul 卯ncepe prin a ceda 卯n lucrurile m膬runte 艧i sf卯r艧e艧te pierz卯nd tot sensul vie牛ii鈥�;
鈥濬rica orbe艧te, spuse t卯n膬ra cu ochelari negri, S卯nt bune cuvintele, eram orbi 卯n clipa c卯nd am orbit, frica ne-a orbit, frica ne va 牛ine orbi...鈥�;
鈥瀉艧a e lumea f膬cut膬, 卯nc卯t adev膬rul trebuie s膬 se deghizeze de multe ori 卯n minciun膬 ca s膬-艧i ating膬 scopurile鈥�;
鈥瀎useser膬 p膬r膬site [de oameni] toate laboratoarele, unde nu le r膬m卯nea bacteriilor alt膬 solu牛ie de supravie牛uire dec卯t s膬 se devoreze 卯ntre ele...鈥�
脦n concluzie, un roman care 卯葯i merit膬 卯ntru totul celebritatea.
July 31, 2021
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira = Blindness, Jos茅 Saramago
Blindness (Essay on Blindness) is a novel by Portuguese author Jos茅 Saramago.
It is one of his most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award.
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 賲丕賴 丿爻丕賲亘乇 爻丕賱 1999 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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Blindness (Essay on Blindness) is a novel by Portuguese author Jos茅 Saramago.
It is one of his most famous novels, along with The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Blindness was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award.
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 賲丕賴 丿爻丕賲亘乇 爻丕賱 1999 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 29/05/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 07/05/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿賱貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
March 28, 2008
Not at all disturbing, not at all compelling and not at all interesting, Jose Saramago's Blindness only succeeds in frustrating readers who take a moment to let their imagination beyond the page. Yes, Saramago's story is a clever idea, and, yes, he creates an intentional allegory to force us to think about the nature of humanity, but his ideas are clearly those of a privileged white male in a privileged European nation. Not only do his portrayals of women and their men fall short of the mark, but Saramago has clearly never had to fend for himself in the world. If he did, he'd realize that there were a thousand easy answers to the dilemmas he created for his characters, and he could have then focused more on the internal filth of their souls than the external excrement of their bodies. Blindness is not worthy of a Nobel Winner.
November 4, 2024
Un aut茅ntico cinco estrellas, y cr茅anme que hasta a m铆 me parece una frivolidad empezar de esta guisa tras leer la genial brutalidad que acabo de terminar (por fin me reconcilio literariamente con Saramago, un tipo que me ca铆a, que me cae, muy bien).
鈥淒ejadlos; son ciegos gu铆as de ciegos; y si el ciego guiare al ciego, ambos caer谩n en el hoyo鈥� Mateo 15:14 (representado en la portada de mi edici贸n por el cuadro 芦La par谩bola de los ciegos禄, del pintor flamenco Pieter Brueghel el Viejo)En su plano m谩s superficial, el planteamiento y desarrollo bien podr铆a ser el de una novela de Stephen King. Imagino que todo el mundo est谩 al tanto: alguien al volante de su coche se encuentra parado ante un sem谩foro, de repente se queda ciego, de una ceguera blanca. Es el inicio de una 鈥渆pidemia鈥� que se ir谩 extendiendo irremediable y descontroladamente.
鈥溾€� cuando el cuerpo se nos desmanda de dolor y de angustias es cuando se ve el animal que somos鈥�El estilo, el habitual del autor, es lo que marca la diferencia: un narrador de formas burocr谩ticas, un funcionario juguet贸n y con retranca que valora 鈥渆l uso de un vocabulario correcto y educado鈥� la descripci贸n de cualquier hecho gana con el rigor y la propiedad de los t茅rminos usados鈥�. A veces se hace el simple con acotaciones que parecen remarcar innecesariamente, con un discurso plagado de refranes y frases hechas, mientras que en otras demuestra gran sutiliza y profundidad. Un narrador que se involucra con lo narrado y los personajes sin nombre que lo protagonizan, disculpando, comprendiendo y justificando ciertos hechos, aunque su diligencia no le permita cambiar el tono en ning煤n momento por dram谩tico que este sea.
La novela muestra la fragilidad de las sociedades humanas. La ceguera nos iguala en las circunstancias, el dinero y la riqueza dejan de marcar diferencias, la familia, las relaciones, el trabajo ya no son factores de estratificaci贸n, solo queda la persona desnuda (鈥滵entro de nosotros hay algo que no tiene nombre, esa cosa es lo que somos鈥�), lo que determinar谩 nuevas formas de interdependencia y de relaciones de poder en una sociedad sin gobierno ni justicia donde imperar谩 la ley del m谩s fuerte y del que menos escr煤pulos tenga que se aprovechar谩 de la facilidad con la que, por muy mal que ande la cosa, 鈥渆s posible hallar una raci贸n suficiente de bien para que podamos soportar esos males con paciencia鈥�.
鈥溾€� los sentimientos con que hemos vivido y que nos hicieron vivir como 茅ramos, nacieron de los ojos que ten铆amos, sin ojos ser谩n diferentes los sentimientos, no sabemos c贸mo, no sabemos cu谩les鈥� lo que est谩 naciendo es el aut茅ntico sentir de los ciegos, y s贸lo estamos en el inicio, por ahora a煤n vivimos de la memoria de lo que sent铆amos鈥︹€�A partir de aqu铆 se puede buscar una analog铆a con el capitalismo salvaje al que parecen tender nuestras sociedades y la ceguera con la que asistimos a tal evoluci贸n, la pasividad con la que nos sometemos a situaciones cada vez m谩s precarias e injustas y a lo que ello nos puede abocar mientras esperamos a que la soluci贸n venga del cielo (potent铆sima esa imagen de las pinturas y tallas de una iglesia con los ojos cegados por pintura o trapos).
"La ceguera tambi茅n es esto, vivir en un mundo donde se ha acabado la esperanza"
August 12, 2023
master piece馃槏
爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 兀亘丿毓 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞..兀禺丿鬲 賲賳賷 賵賯鬲 賮賷 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 毓卮丕賳 賰賳鬲 亘賯乇兀 賲毓馗賲 丕賱噩賲賱 兀賰鬲乇 賲賳 賲乇丞 賲賳 噩賲丕賱賴丕 賵賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷賴丕..
兀賵賱 賱賯丕亍 賱賷丕 賲毓 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賵賷丕賱賴 賲賳 賱賯丕亍..
cant wait to read my next saramago book..鉂わ笍
爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 兀亘丿毓 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞..兀禺丿鬲 賲賳賷 賵賯鬲 賮賷 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 毓卮丕賳 賰賳鬲 亘賯乇兀 賲毓馗賲 丕賱噩賲賱 兀賰鬲乇 賲賳 賲乇丞 賲賳 噩賲丕賱賴丕 賵賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷賴丕..
兀賵賱 賱賯丕亍 賱賷丕 賲毓 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賵賷丕賱賴 賲賳 賱賯丕亍..
cant wait to read my next saramago book..鉂わ笍
December 6, 2016
賵賯鬲賷 賲賷 鬲賵丕賳蹖 亘亘賷賳蹖貙 賳诏丕賴 賰賳
賵賯鬲賷 賲賷鬲賵丕賳蹖 賳诏丕賴 賰賳蹖貙 乇毓丕賷鬲 賰賳
讴鬲丕亘 "賰賵乇蹖" 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 乇丕 丕夭 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 賳丕诏賵丕乇 乇丕賴賷 禺亘乇丿丕乇 賲蹖 賰賳丿 賰賴 亘丕 乇毓丕賷鬲 賳賰乇丿賳 丨賯賵賯 丕賵賱賷賴 丕賳爻丕賳 賴丕 丌睾丕夭 賲賷 卮賵丿. 爻丕乇丕賲丕诏賵 丕賷賳 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 鬲賲丿賳 乇丕 胤賵乇賷 亘賴 賳賲丕賷卮 丿乇丌賵乇丿賴 賰賴 丿乇 氐丨賳賴 丕賷 丌賳賯丿乇 賲鬲丕孬乇 卮丿賲 賰賴 賰鬲丕亘 乇丕 賲丨賰賲 亘爻鬲賲 賵 賳賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賲 亘丕夭卮 讴賳賲 賵 丕丿丕賲賴 亘丿賴賲... 亘賴 賯賵賱 賷賰賷 丕夭 賯賴乇賲丕賳丕賳 賰鬲丕亘 賳賲賷 鬲賵丕賳 賴賷趩 賰賱賲賴 丕賷 丨鬲蹖 賵丨卮鬲賳丕賰 亘乇丕蹖 丕賷賳 賮丕噩毓賴 賲鬲氐賵乇 卮丿
爻賷乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賯賴賯賴乇丕卅賷 丕爻鬲 賷毓賳賷 賴賲賴 趩賷 丿丕乇丿 亘賴 胤乇賮 亘賷 賳馗賲賷 賵 毓丿賲 爻丕夭賲丕賳 丿賴賷 賰卮賷丿賴 賲賷 卮賵丿 賵 丕賳诏丕乇 賴賲丕賳賳丿 賮賷賱賲 亘賳噩丕賲賷賳 亘丕鬲賳 夭賳丿诏賷 賲賷 禺賵丕賴丿 丕夭 倬賷乇賷 亘賴 卮乇賵毓 禺賵丿卮 亘乇诏乇丿丿 賷毓賳賷 賴賷賵賱丕*賲賷 卮賵丿
...賵 "讴賵乇蹖" 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 趩賳蹖賳 乇賵夭蹖 丕爻鬲
...賲丕 讴賴 丕夭 賲賻乇丿蹖 賲購乇丿蹖賲 賱丕 丕賯賱 鬲賵 夭賳 亘丕卮
賲爻蹖丨丕蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 蹖讴 夭賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 爻乇卮丕乇 丕夭 氐賮丕鬲 亘乇噩爻鬲賴 賵 賵丕賱丕蹖 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 丕爻鬲 丕夭 賮丿丕讴丕乇蹖 诏乇賮鬲賴 鬲丕 讴賲讴 讴乇丿賳 亘賴 讴賵乇丕賳 賵 亘禺卮卮. 賵蹖 丨鬲蹖 亘乇 禺蹖丕賳鬲 卮賵賴乇 讴賵乇卮 趩卮賲 賲蹖 亘賳丿丿. 丕賵 鬲賳賴丕 讴爻蹖 丕爻鬲 卮丿鬲 賮噩丕蹖毓 乇丕 亘丕 趩卮賲丕賳卮 賲蹖 亘蹖賳丿 賵 丿乇丿 賲蹖 讴卮丿 丕賲丕 鬲爻賱蹖賲 賳丕倬匕蹖乇 賴賲趩賵賳 賲爻蹖丨貙 蹖讴 鬲賳賴 氐賱蹖亘 乇丕 亘乇 丿賵卮 賲蹖 讴卮丿
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丿乇 賲賯丿賲賴 賰鬲丕亘貙 丌賯丕賷 毓亘丕爻 倬跇賲丕賳 丕夭 乇賳诏 爻賮賷丿賷 賲蹖 诏賵蹖丿 賰賴 賴賲賴 賰賵乇丕賳 丕賷賳 賰鬲丕亘 亘賴 丕賷賳 賰賵乇賷 丿趩丕乇 賲賷 卮賵賳丿
賵 丕夭 賮賱爻賮賴 丕乇爻胤賵 賲蹖诏賵蹖丿 讴賴 賴乇 趩賷夭賷 禺丕賲卮 貙賴賷賵賱丕 賵 賷丕 禺丕賵賷賴 賳丕賲賷丿賴 賲賷 卮賵丿 賷毓賳賷 爻賳诏賷 賰賴 賴賳賵夭 亘賴 卮賰賱 賲噩爻賲賴 丿乇 賳賷丕賲丿賴 貙賴賷賵賱丕賷 賲噩爻賲賴 丕爻鬲
賵 丕賵賱賷賳 賰賵乇賷 丿乇 趩乇丕睾 乇丕賴賳賲丕賷賷 丕鬲賮丕賯 賲賷 丕賮鬲丿 賰賴 趩乇丕睾 乇丕賴賳賲丕賷賷 卮丕賲賱 爻賴 乇賳诏 賯乇賲夭 賵 夭乇丿 賵 爻亘夭 丕爻鬲 賰賴 丕夭 乇賳诏 爻賮賷丿 亘賵噩賵丿 賲賷 丌賷賳丿
February 13, 2018
趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 賲賵賯毓 禺賵賳丿賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘乇丕賲 禺蹖賱蹖 噩丕賱亘 亘賵丿貙 丕蹖賳 亘賵丿 讴賴 趩胤賵乇 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕夭 鬲讴賳蹖讴 丿乇 禺丿賲鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴乇丿賴.
丿賳蹖丕蹖 讴賵乇賴丕貙 丕賲倬乇丕鬲賵乇蹖 丕氐賵丕鬲 丿乇賴賲 賵 亘乇賴賲賴. 丨丿丕賯賱 鬲丕 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 賮乇丿 賳丕亘蹖賳丕 賯丿乇鬲 卮賳賵丕蹖蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 讴爻亘 讴賳賴 賵 亘鬲賵賳賴 丕氐賵丕鬲 乇賵 亘丕 賯丿乇鬲 夭蹖丕丿 鬲賲蹖夭 亘丿賴.
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 賳卮賵賳 丿丕丿賳 丕蹖賳 丕氐賵丕鬲 丿乇 賴賲 賵 亘乇 賴賲貙 丕賵賲丿賴 丿蹖丕賱賵诏 賴丕 乇賵 亘丿賵賳 诏蹖賵賲賴 賵 禺胤 鬲蹖乇賴貙 亘丿賵賳 爻乇 爻胤乇 丌賵乇丿賳 賴乇 丿蹖丕賱賵诏 賵 賲噩夭丕 讴乇丿賳卮貙 丿乇 賴賲 賵 亘乇 賴賲 賵 倬卮鬲 爻乇 賴賲 賵 亘丿賵賳 賴蹖趩 鬲賲蹖夭蹖 丌賵乇丿賴. 亘賴 胤賵乇蹖 讴賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 亘丕 胤賵賮丕賳蹖 爻乇 丿乇 诏賲 讴賳賳丿賴 丕夭 诏賮鬲诏賵賴丕蹖 丌卮賮鬲賴 賲賵丕噩賴 賲蹖 卮賴 賵 賳賲蹖 丿賵賳賴 讴蹖 亘賴 讴蹖賴. 賴賲賵賳 丨丕賱蹖 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 讴賵乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖 讴賳賳.
亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 鬲乇鬲蹖亘貙 丕爻賲 賴丕 賴賲 丕夭 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丨匕賮 卮丿賳. 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴貙 丕爻賲 賴賲賵賳 讴丕乇讴乇丿蹖 乇賵 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 禺胤賵胤 趩賴乇賴 亘乇丕蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿丕乇賴: 賴乇 丿賵 賲丕蹖踿 鬲賲蹖夭 蹖讴 賮乇丿 丕夭 賮乇丿 丿蹖诏賴 賴爻鬲賳. 丕賲丕 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖蹖 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕 賳賲蹖 鬲賵賳賳 禺胤賵胤 趩賴乇踿 丌丿賲 賴丕 乇賵 亘亘蹖賳賳貙 鬲賲蹖夭蹖 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕乇賴. 丕賮乇丕丿 亘丕 賴賲 賯丕胤蹖 賴爻鬲賳 賵 丕诏乇 賴賲 丕夭 賴賲 鬲賲蹖夭 丿丕丿賴 賲蹖 卮賳貙 賳賴 鬲賵爻胤 丕爻賲 賴丕貙 亘賱讴賴 鬲賵爻胤 "氐賮丕鬲" 丕賵賳 賴丕爻鬲. 氐賮丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘丕 亘蹖賳丕蹖蹖 蹖丕 讴賵乇蹖 丕夭 亘蹖賳 賳賲蹖 乇賴. 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 賴賲蹖賳賴 讴賴 丿禺鬲乇蹖 讴賴 爻诏 丿丕乇賴貙 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘丕 氐賮鬲卮 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 賲蹖卮賴貙 賳賴 亘丕 丕爻賲卮. 賴蹖趩 讴爻 丕爻賲蹖 賳丿丕乇賴. 賴賲賴 賮賯胤 亘丕 禺氐賵氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 賵丕賯毓蹖 卮賵賳 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 賲蹖 卮賳. 亘丕 丕毓賲丕賱卮賵賳.
丿賳蹖丕蹖 讴賵乇賴丕貙 丕賲倬乇丕鬲賵乇蹖 丕氐賵丕鬲 丿乇賴賲 賵 亘乇賴賲賴. 丨丿丕賯賱 鬲丕 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 賮乇丿 賳丕亘蹖賳丕 賯丿乇鬲 卮賳賵丕蹖蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 讴爻亘 讴賳賴 賵 亘鬲賵賳賴 丕氐賵丕鬲 乇賵 亘丕 賯丿乇鬲 夭蹖丕丿 鬲賲蹖夭 亘丿賴.
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 賳卮賵賳 丿丕丿賳 丕蹖賳 丕氐賵丕鬲 丿乇 賴賲 賵 亘乇 賴賲貙 丕賵賲丿賴 丿蹖丕賱賵诏 賴丕 乇賵 亘丿賵賳 诏蹖賵賲賴 賵 禺胤 鬲蹖乇賴貙 亘丿賵賳 爻乇 爻胤乇 丌賵乇丿賳 賴乇 丿蹖丕賱賵诏 賵 賲噩夭丕 讴乇丿賳卮貙 丿乇 賴賲 賵 亘乇 賴賲 賵 倬卮鬲 爻乇 賴賲 賵 亘丿賵賳 賴蹖趩 鬲賲蹖夭蹖 丌賵乇丿賴. 亘賴 胤賵乇蹖 讴賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 亘丕 胤賵賮丕賳蹖 爻乇 丿乇 诏賲 讴賳賳丿賴 丕夭 诏賮鬲诏賵賴丕蹖 丌卮賮鬲賴 賲賵丕噩賴 賲蹖 卮賴 賵 賳賲蹖 丿賵賳賴 讴蹖 亘賴 讴蹖賴. 賴賲賵賳 丨丕賱蹖 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 讴賵乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖 讴賳賳.
亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 鬲乇鬲蹖亘貙 丕爻賲 賴丕 賴賲 丕夭 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丨匕賮 卮丿賳. 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴貙 丕爻賲 賴賲賵賳 讴丕乇讴乇丿蹖 乇賵 丿丕乇賴 讴賴 禺胤賵胤 趩賴乇賴 亘乇丕蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿丕乇賴: 賴乇 丿賵 賲丕蹖踿 鬲賲蹖夭 蹖讴 賮乇丿 丕夭 賮乇丿 丿蹖诏賴 賴爻鬲賳. 丕賲丕 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖蹖 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鬲 賴丕 賳賲蹖 鬲賵賳賳 禺胤賵胤 趩賴乇踿 丌丿賲 賴丕 乇賵 亘亘蹖賳賳貙 鬲賲蹖夭蹖 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕乇賴. 丕賮乇丕丿 亘丕 賴賲 賯丕胤蹖 賴爻鬲賳 賵 丕诏乇 賴賲 丕夭 賴賲 鬲賲蹖夭 丿丕丿賴 賲蹖 卮賳貙 賳賴 鬲賵爻胤 丕爻賲 賴丕貙 亘賱讴賴 鬲賵爻胤 "氐賮丕鬲" 丕賵賳 賴丕爻鬲. 氐賮丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘丕 亘蹖賳丕蹖蹖 蹖丕 讴賵乇蹖 丕夭 亘蹖賳 賳賲蹖 乇賴. 亘賴 禺丕胤乇 賴賲蹖賳賴 讴賴 丿禺鬲乇蹖 讴賴 爻诏 丿丕乇賴貙 賴賲蹖卮賴 亘丕 氐賮鬲卮 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 賲蹖卮賴貙 賳賴 亘丕 丕爻賲卮. 賴蹖趩 讴爻 丕爻賲蹖 賳丿丕乇賴. 賴賲賴 賮賯胤 亘丕 禺氐賵氐蹖鬲 賴丕蹖 賵丕賯毓蹖 卮賵賳 卮賳丕禺鬲賴 賲蹖 卮賳. 亘丕 丕毓賲丕賱卮賵賳.
October 26, 2020
危蠀纬魏位慰谓喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟿蔚蟻维蟽蟿喂慰 蟿慰 蟽蠉渭蟺伪谓 蟿慰蠀 螤慰蟻蟿慰纬维位慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪- 蟿慰 蠁蠅蟿蔚喂谓蠈 蟽蠉渭蟺伪谓 蟺慰蠀 魏伪位蔚委蟽伪喂 谓伪 味萎蟽蔚喂蟼 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 渭喂伪 蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽蟿喂魏萎 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 畏 慰蟺慰喂伪 蔚喂谓伪喂 蠁蟻喂魏蟿维 伪蟺委胃伪谓畏 苇蠅蟼 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏萎.
韦慰 蟺蔚蟻委蠁畏渭慰 伪蠀蟿蠈 尾喂尾位委慰 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 渭蔚 渭喂伪 蟺伪谓未畏渭委伪 蟿蠉蠁位蠅蟽畏蟼 魏维蟺慰蠀-魏维蟺慰蟿蔚 -慰蟺慰蠀未萎蟺慰蟿蔚 畏 慰蟺慰喂伪 蔚喂谓伪喂 伪谓蔚尉萎纬畏蟿畏 魏伪喂 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏维 蟺蟻蠅蟿慰蠁伪谓萎蟼,渭蔚蟿伪未喂未蠈渭蔚谓畏 渭维位位慰谓,苇蟿蟽喂 蠋蟽蟿蔚 蟽蔚 位委纬蔚蟼 渭苇蟻蔚蟼 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蔚委蟿伪喂 畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟿蠅谓 尉伪蠁谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 伪蟺蠈蟿慰渭伪 蟿蠀蠁位蠋谓 魏伪喂 伪尾慰萎胃畏蟿蠅谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓.
螒蠀蟿萎 畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 渭蟺伪委谓蔚喂 蟽蔚 魏伪蟻伪谓蟿委谓伪 伪蟺慰 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚尉苇蠂慰谓蟿蔚蟼 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓畏蟿喂魏慰蠉蟼 蟺伪蟻维纬慰谓蟿蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰 魏蟻维蟿慰蟼 未喂魏伪委慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 伪魏蠈渭畏 未蔚谓 蟿慰蠀蟼 位蔚委蟺蔚喂 畏 蠈蟻伪蟽畏 ....蔚喂谓伪喂- 蠈蟺蠅蟼 蠈位慰喂 纬谓蠅蟻委味慰蠀渭蔚-蟺蟻喂谓 蟿畏谓 蟺伪谓未畏渭委伪 伪蟺慰魏蟿畏谓蠅渭蔚谓慰喂.
危蔚 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏 谓苇伪 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 位蔚蠀魏萎蟼 蟿蠀蠁位蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 蔚蟺喂魏蟻伪蟿蔚委 慰 蟺蠈谓慰蟼,慰 蟺伪谓喂魏蠈蟼,慰 蟿蟻蠈渭慰蟼,畏 伪蟺蔚位蟺喂蟽委锟斤拷 魏伪喂 慰位伪 蟿伪 蟽蠂蔚蟿喂魏维 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏 蠁蠉蟽畏 渭蟺蟻慰蟽蟿维 蟽蟿慰 维纬谓蠅蟽蟿慰 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻维位慰纬慰. 螤蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁慰谓蟿伪喂 未蔚 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 蟿慰蟽慰 蔚谓蟿蠀蟺蠅蟽喂伪魏维 魏蠀谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 慰喂魏蔚委伪-位委纬慰 伪蟺苇蠂蠅 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 谓蔚蠀蟻喂魏蠈 魏位慰谓喂蟽渭蠈-蠈蟽慰 魏伪喂 伪位畏胃慰蠁伪谓萎.
螠蔚蟿伪蠁蔚蟻蠈渭伪蟽蟿蔚 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 蠈渭慰蟻蠁伪 魏伪喂 蟺慰喂畏蟿喂魏维 蟽蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿维蟻蟻蔚蠀蟽畏 蠈位蠅谓. 危蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿维位蠀蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 蟺维谓蟿蠅谓, 胃蔚蟽渭蠋谓-未蔚蟽渭蠋谓-蠁蟻伪纬渭蠋谓-畏胃蠋谓-喂未蔚蠋谓 魏伪喂 魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 位慰纬喂魏萎 魏伪喂 蟿畏 谓畏蠁伪位喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 蟺慰位喂蟿喂蟽渭慰蠉 蟽蟿畏谓 味蠅蠋未畏 谓慰慰蟿蟻慰蟺委伪 蟿畏蟼 味慰蠉纬魏位伪蟼.
韦慰 蔚蟺蠈渭蔚谓慰 蟽蟿维未喂慰 蔚喂谓伪喂 畏 渭蔚蟿维位位伪尉畏 蟿蠅谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓 -蟿蠅谓 蟽蠀谓伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓 渭伪蟼- 蔚未蠅 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 畏 伪谓伪纬谓蠅蟽蟿喂魏萎 蠁蟻委魏畏 魏伪喂 畏 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪. 螒蟺位维 魏伪喂 魏伪胃畏渭蔚蟻喂谓维 慰喂 未喂蟺位伪谓慰委 渭伪蟼 渭蔚蟿伪位位维蟽蟽慰谓蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 蠁蠀蟽喂慰位慰纬喂魏维 萎蟻蔚渭伪 魏伪喂 蔚蠀纬蔚谓喂魏维 蟺位维蟽渭伪蟿伪 蟽蔚 未慰位慰蠁蠈谓慰蠀蟼 尾喂伪蟽蟿苇蟼 胃蟻伪蟽蠉未蔚喂位慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蔚魏尾喂伪蟽蟿苇蟼. 螠蔚 苇谓伪 纬蠉蟻喂蟽渭伪, 渭喂伪 位维渭蠄畏, 慰位伪 蟿伪 蠈蟻喂伪 魏伪蟿伪蟻蟻委蟺蟿慰谓蟿伪喂 蠂蠅蟻喂蟼 谓伪 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 蔚位蟺委未伪 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻畏纬慰蟻喂维.
螝维蟺慰蠀 蔚未蠅 蔚喂谓伪喂 蟺慰蠀 蔚蠉蠂蔚蟽伪喂 谓伪 渭畏谓 蔚委蠂蔚蟼 伪纬纬委尉蔚喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 喂蔚蟻蠈 魏伪蟿伪蟻伪渭苇谓慰 尾喂尾位委慰. 螝维蟺慰蠀 蔚未蠅 伪谓蟿喂位伪渭尾维谓蔚蟽伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 畏 魏蠈位伪蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 魏伪蟿伪蟻伪渭苇谓蠅谓 蔚喂谓伪喂 苇谓伪 尾萎渭伪 渭伪魏蟻喂维 蟽慰蠀. 螝伪喂 魏维蟺慰蠀 蔚未蠅 伪谓蟿喂位伪渭尾维谓蔚蟽伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蔚喂谓伪喂 魏位畏蟻慰谓慰渭喂维 魏伪喂 伪位畏胃喂谓萎 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪.
螣 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 伪蟺蔚位蟺喂蟽蟿喂魏维 未蠀蟽维蟻蔚蟽蟿慰蟼 魏伪喂 魏蠀谓喂魏蠈蟼 伪位位伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰蟽慰 蠁蠅蟿蔚喂谓蠈蟼 魏伪喂 蟿蟻蠀蠁蔚蟻蠈蟼 渭伪蟼 慰未畏纬蔚委 蟽蔚 渭慰谓慰蟺维蟿喂伪 蟺慰蠀 胃伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽伪谓 谓伪 伪位位维尉慰蠀谓 蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰.
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螤慰位位慰蠉蟼 伪蟽蟺伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼!!
韦慰 蟺蔚蟻委蠁畏渭慰 伪蠀蟿蠈 尾喂尾位委慰 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 渭蔚 渭喂伪 蟺伪谓未畏渭委伪 蟿蠉蠁位蠅蟽畏蟼 魏维蟺慰蠀-魏维蟺慰蟿蔚 -慰蟺慰蠀未萎蟺慰蟿蔚 畏 慰蟺慰喂伪 蔚喂谓伪喂 伪谓蔚尉萎纬畏蟿畏 魏伪喂 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏维 蟺蟻蠅蟿慰蠁伪谓萎蟼,渭蔚蟿伪未喂未蠈渭蔚谓畏 渭维位位慰谓,苇蟿蟽喂 蠋蟽蟿蔚 蟽蔚 位委纬蔚蟼 渭苇蟻蔚蟼 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蔚委蟿伪喂 畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 蟿蠅谓 尉伪蠁谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 伪蟺蠈蟿慰渭伪 蟿蠀蠁位蠋谓 魏伪喂 伪尾慰萎胃畏蟿蠅谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓.
螒蠀蟿萎 畏 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 渭蟺伪委谓蔚喂 蟽蔚 魏伪蟻伪谓蟿委谓伪 伪蟺慰 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚尉苇蠂慰谓蟿蔚蟼 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓畏蟿喂魏慰蠉蟼 蟺伪蟻维纬慰谓蟿蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰 魏蟻维蟿慰蟼 未喂魏伪委慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 伪魏蠈渭畏 未蔚谓 蟿慰蠀蟼 位蔚委蟺蔚喂 畏 蠈蟻伪蟽畏 ....蔚喂谓伪喂- 蠈蟺蠅蟼 蠈位慰喂 纬谓蠅蟻委味慰蠀渭蔚-蟺蟻喂谓 蟿畏谓 蟺伪谓未畏渭委伪 伪蟺慰魏蟿畏谓蠅渭蔚谓慰喂.
危蔚 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏 谓苇伪 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪 位蔚蠀魏萎蟼 蟿蠀蠁位蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 蔚蟺喂魏蟻伪蟿蔚委 慰 蟺蠈谓慰蟼,慰 蟺伪谓喂魏蠈蟼,慰 蟿蟻蠈渭慰蟼,畏 伪蟺蔚位蟺喂蟽委锟斤拷 魏伪喂 慰位伪 蟿伪 蟽蠂蔚蟿喂魏维 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏 蠁蠉蟽畏 渭蟺蟻慰蟽蟿维 蟽蟿慰 维纬谓蠅蟽蟿慰 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻维位慰纬慰. 螤蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁慰谓蟿伪喂 未蔚 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 蟿慰蟽慰 蔚谓蟿蠀蟺蠅蟽喂伪魏维 魏蠀谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 慰喂魏蔚委伪-位委纬慰 伪蟺苇蠂蠅 伪蟺慰 蟿慰谓 谓蔚蠀蟻喂魏蠈 魏位慰谓喂蟽渭蠈-蠈蟽慰 魏伪喂 伪位畏胃慰蠁伪谓萎.
螠蔚蟿伪蠁蔚蟻蠈渭伪蟽蟿蔚 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 蠈渭慰蟻蠁伪 魏伪喂 蟺慰喂畏蟿喂魏维 蟽蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿维蟻蟻蔚蠀蟽畏 蠈位蠅谓. 危蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿维位蠀蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 蟺维谓蟿蠅谓, 胃蔚蟽渭蠋谓-未蔚蟽渭蠋谓-蠁蟻伪纬渭蠋谓-畏胃蠋谓-喂未蔚蠋谓 魏伪喂 魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 位慰纬喂魏萎 魏伪喂 蟿畏 谓畏蠁伪位喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 蟺慰位喂蟿喂蟽渭慰蠉 蟽蟿畏谓 味蠅蠋未畏 谓慰慰蟿蟻慰蟺委伪 蟿畏蟼 味慰蠉纬魏位伪蟼.
韦慰 蔚蟺蠈渭蔚谓慰 蟽蟿维未喂慰 蔚喂谓伪喂 畏 渭蔚蟿维位位伪尉畏 蟿蠅谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓 -蟿蠅谓 蟽蠀谓伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓 渭伪蟼- 蔚未蠅 尉蔚魏喂谓维蔚喂 畏 伪谓伪纬谓蠅蟽蟿喂魏萎 蠁蟻委魏畏 魏伪喂 畏 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪. 螒蟺位维 魏伪喂 魏伪胃畏渭蔚蟻喂谓维 慰喂 未喂蟺位伪谓慰委 渭伪蟼 渭蔚蟿伪位位维蟽蟽慰谓蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 蠁蠀蟽喂慰位慰纬喂魏维 萎蟻蔚渭伪 魏伪喂 蔚蠀纬蔚谓喂魏维 蟺位维蟽渭伪蟿伪 蟽蔚 未慰位慰蠁蠈谓慰蠀蟼 尾喂伪蟽蟿苇蟼 胃蟻伪蟽蠉未蔚喂位慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蔚魏尾喂伪蟽蟿苇蟼. 螠蔚 苇谓伪 纬蠉蟻喂蟽渭伪, 渭喂伪 位维渭蠄畏, 慰位伪 蟿伪 蠈蟻喂伪 魏伪蟿伪蟻蟻委蟺蟿慰谓蟿伪喂 蠂蠅蟻喂蟼 谓伪 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 蔚位蟺委未伪 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻畏纬慰蟻喂维.
螝维蟺慰蠀 蔚未蠅 蔚喂谓伪喂 蟺慰蠀 蔚蠉蠂蔚蟽伪喂 谓伪 渭畏谓 蔚委蠂蔚蟼 伪纬纬委尉蔚喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 喂蔚蟻蠈 魏伪蟿伪蟻伪渭苇谓慰 尾喂尾位委慰. 螝维蟺慰蠀 蔚未蠅 伪谓蟿喂位伪渭尾维谓蔚蟽伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 畏 魏蠈位伪蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 魏伪蟿伪蟻伪渭苇谓蠅谓 蔚喂谓伪喂 苇谓伪 尾萎渭伪 渭伪魏蟻喂维 蟽慰蠀. 螝伪喂 魏维蟺慰蠀 蔚未蠅 伪谓蟿喂位伪渭尾维谓蔚蟽伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蔚喂谓伪喂 魏位畏蟻慰谓慰渭喂维 魏伪喂 伪位畏胃喂谓萎 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪.
螣 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 伪蟺蔚位蟺喂蟽蟿喂魏维 未蠀蟽维蟻蔚蟽蟿慰蟼 魏伪喂 魏蠀谓喂魏蠈蟼 伪位位伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰蟽慰 蠁蠅蟿蔚喂谓蠈蟼 魏伪喂 蟿蟻蠀蠁蔚蟻蠈蟼 渭伪蟼 慰未畏纬蔚委 蟽蔚 渭慰谓慰蟺维蟿喂伪 蟺慰蠀 胃伪 渭蟺慰蟻慰蠉蟽伪谓 谓伪 伪位位维尉慰蠀谓 蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰.
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螤慰位位慰蠉蟼 伪蟽蟺伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼!!
January 20, 2025
"Blindness" is the most captivating novel I have read in a long time, but also the one I closed with the most generous relief. It's an oppressive and nauseating atmosphere. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps!
Imagine a pandemic that, in a few weeks, strikes blindness to the population as a whole! The extraordinary and brutal dimension of the cataclysm prevents the establishment of any saving organization and generates absolute chaos.
Without water or electricity, the blind wander in disparate groups for scarce food in ransacked stores daily. The most vulnerable people die in the street amid abandoned cars and droppings. The still-hot corpses fall prey to starving dogs, enormous rats, and scavenging birds.
The reader accompanies ten people who are the first victims of the scourge that will quarantine them. In their misfortune, they have the unexpected luck of having a woman who can still see among them. Out of prudence, the latter pretends to be blind, and only her husband, an ophthalmologist, is aware of this happy anomaly of fate.
With "Blindness," published in 1995, the future Nobel Prize winner Jos茅 Saramago creates an incredibly realistic fiction in which bestiality quickly precedes all humanity. Fortunately, the doctor's wife's altruistic behavior and intelligence somewhat attenuate the darkness!
This fiction's strangeness must be accentuated by the Portuguese writer's particular syntax in which the comma is queen.
Glued continuously to the basques of the protagonists in their groping movements, the reader, stunned by the apocalyptic degree of the intrigue, will do so until the end. That's round-eyed.
Imagine a pandemic that, in a few weeks, strikes blindness to the population as a whole! The extraordinary and brutal dimension of the cataclysm prevents the establishment of any saving organization and generates absolute chaos.
Without water or electricity, the blind wander in disparate groups for scarce food in ransacked stores daily. The most vulnerable people die in the street amid abandoned cars and droppings. The still-hot corpses fall prey to starving dogs, enormous rats, and scavenging birds.
The reader accompanies ten people who are the first victims of the scourge that will quarantine them. In their misfortune, they have the unexpected luck of having a woman who can still see among them. Out of prudence, the latter pretends to be blind, and only her husband, an ophthalmologist, is aware of this happy anomaly of fate.
With "Blindness," published in 1995, the future Nobel Prize winner Jos茅 Saramago creates an incredibly realistic fiction in which bestiality quickly precedes all humanity. Fortunately, the doctor's wife's altruistic behavior and intelligence somewhat attenuate the darkness!
This fiction's strangeness must be accentuated by the Portuguese writer's particular syntax in which the comma is queen.
Glued continuously to the basques of the protagonists in their groping movements, the reader, stunned by the apocalyptic degree of the intrigue, will do so until the end. That's round-eyed.
May 26, 2024
*edited on 27.05.2020
The word Attention was uttered three times, then the voice began, the Government regrets having been forced to exercise with all urgency what it considers to be its rightful duty, to protect the population by all possible means in this present crisis, when something with all the appearance of an epidemic of blindness has broken out, provisionally known as the white sickness, and we are relying on the public spirit and cooperation of all citizens to stem any further contagion, assuming that we are dealing with a contagious disease and that we are not simply witnessing a series of as yet inexplicable coincidences.
The unanticipated and unforeseen events often strike us when we least expect them to, so much so that those could afflict you in the middle of a ride, which is still explicable. It could be one of those serendipitous and arbitrary events which happen in life but to find that you are not alone to be 'blessed' with such a travesty could numb your senses and send our entire existence for a toss, all your morals and ethics, essentially everything what life comprises of, may be gaping at you with an unfathomable existential horror. While the world is still grappling with dread of the CoVID-19, struggling hard with its all might to come to terms with the pandemic which is however yet in its embryonic phase, I noticed that quite a few people found somewhat declining fascination for dystopian, post-apocalyptic books coming to life with up surging beguile, I too found myself caught entwined with allure of the same. Though I have a bit of luxury in options- The Plague by Albert Camus and 1984 by George Orwell, to name a few- but Blindness made itself popped up out of sea of indecisiveness with eruption of glamour, the fact that Jose Saramago鈥� s world have been still elusive to me, must have played a part in it. The flipping through the very first pages sends an eerie glimpse of what the book might hold in wholeness. There is an inexplicable utter chaos which announces itself through horrific disorder of humanity, the existence of human beings is reduced to just numbers (quite similar to what we are witnessing in CoVID-19); the consciousness of individual dies out in the wake of retaining the 鈥榮ociety鈥�, but those who are renouncing their beings, ostensibly not by choice, do not have their desire in it, which is otherwise not required as it is for amelioration of humanity, some of them could be burned in the fire of hell of nothingness to save all, the unrealized beings of them gaze with delusive hope, only to become one with hell. Ah! what could it be?
Blindness, it is, or is it really? We have been brought up with the notion of blindness in which a person loses its ability to see things as they are, more often than not it reveals out empathy and compassion from us. But could Blindness draw out baffling horror out of humanity, perhaps if it succeeds in showing the ignominy of humanity to itself; probably that鈥檚 what Jose Saramago has been able to achieve with this masterpiece. It just holds an inhuman mirror which shows humiliation of entire humanity, the farcicality of civilization to reveal our savage and primitive nature hidden under its inauthentic sheath of comfort, which is stripped down to rags of acrid and stifling truth, however appalling it may be. We invariably boast about feathers we have been able to add in the crown of humanity, over the years of civilization, but have we really moved a bit, transformed a bit from what we were, Jose Saramago shattered such notions, if any, with disdain; but perhaps that is how we really are, the ghastly image he shows us is probably we are essentially.
Saramago invites us to his fantastical world, which has only one order that there are no orders- social or natural, with a shattering shriek as drivers of one of the vehicles in a seemingly ordered assortment of automobiles watches in horror as his eyes go white, everything they could perceive to send visual signals to the brain is white as if he has been thrown in a sea of white, quite unusual, earthly improbable, the mayhem follows, welcome to the world of Saramago. The omnipotent blindness, as contagious as any influenzas on the planet could be, engulfs the entire world of the author, but is it just the influenza or it hides something else, more profound, more concrete underneath it, doesn鈥檛 it talk about shallowness of our orderly society, the feebleness of our standards.
鈥�..Anyone who is going to die is already dead and does not know it, That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead, 鈥︹€�.
The author handpicks around half a dozen characters and they have been quarantined in an abandoned military establishment, wherein they are left to themselves, their lives have been totally cut off from the outer world. Their existence has been suspended between being and nothingness, as if it doesn鈥檛 matter to those who are still considered civilized, but yet to be thrown in the hell of nothingness. The life of the quarantine camp briskly degenerates into an existential hell where the blind are victimized first by the way they have been rounded up and shoved into what was a mental hospital, after that they are not given proper food either, and most appallingly by how they are reduced in their attempt to stay alive. We see new sort of barter system in the camp, which eventually takes inhumane form as human beings are demanded in return of food. The dangled and unfulfilled existence of these characters takes us through the manifold possibilities of human wickedness wherein they have been reduced to just vermin who do not have say in the social order of humanity as if their existence is just an apparition, so much so that they have not been even given names, just referred by their professions or relations. However, they are still alive and as human as anyone could be but the society becomes oblivious to their existence. Could they spring their unfulfilled existences back from the hell of nothingness or they would be crushed down under the humongous pressure of disarray, indifference, contempt and atrocities committed by the orderly world.
Life as we know it, could be changed with the rules of nature, our society, our morals, ethics may not stand the savage duress of existence. It is not just the world out there which the inhabitants of the quarantine center have to take care of, we have witnessed on numerous occasions in the history of human civilization that whenever humanity is stretched to its inhumane limit, horrendous activities take birth, the social orders go for a toss, the primitive, archaic human instincts come to play and the world of Saramago is no exception either. We witness perhaps all possible horrendous and grisly acts of humanity, unfortunately as we are not blind, our eyeballs move as swiftly they could to watch murder, thefts and rapes; tears may flow down as a stream of water from those but perhaps our own shame keeps them withhold. The characters of Saramago struggle with their need to connect with one another, form relations and bond as a community, and also with their need for individuality, there is a ever going tussle between individuality and community.
鈥︹€�. we went down all the steps of indignity, all of them, until we reached total degradation, the same might happen here albeit in a different way, there we still had the excuse that the degradation belonged to someone else, not now, now we are all equal regarding good and evil, please, don't ask me what good and what evil are, we knew what it was each time we had to act when blindness was an exception, what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves, one should not trust the latter, forgive this moralising speech, you do not know, you cannot know, what it means to have eyes in a world in which everyone else is blind, I am not a queen, no, I am simply the one who was born to see this horror, you can feel it, I both feel and see it, 鈥︹€︹€︹€�.
The author has been able to create here an alternate reality without touching the easily sought after characteristics of science fiction, he doesn鈥檛 dive into any parallel universes, instead he just shows a world which is so strange by the word go, yet so much our own world; it takes us to the uncomfortable and unwanted recess of our memory and imagination however it is always there, which shows the ability of the author. The book is more like a philosophical treatise, without being pedantic, on human existence which shows us our own fragility and fallibility through dismantling our society, crumbling our civilization to nothing. The things which we have amassed and hard earned over the years as a reward to swank our so-called hard work to categorized those as luxuries, which only distinctive could afford, are reduced to just basic things of necessity, even some of those glorified and proudly gloated things become useless as life come back to basic needs of survival.
鈥︹€�.. We are so afraid of the idea of having to die, said the doctor's wife, that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn,鈥︹€�..
Do we have any hope then? Perhaps we do, otherwise we may not be reading this great piece of literature after progressing through so many hideous acts- genocides, wars, rapes, murders etc.- in our own history of civilization. Hope is a necessary evil, which instills confidence in you to move forward, though it may be shallow and baseless at times and that is all sometimes we need to put forth through madness of humanity. Saramago doesn鈥檛 disappoint you here either. The major characters of Saramago braved themselves to last extend of their perseverance, which comes out to be most essential of human qualities needed for survival, to remain afloat in this sea of white nothingness.
The prose of Saramago is peculiar and inimitable with unique innovations one might come across. He takes movement of post-modernism to a different level altogether thereby constructing many long, breathless sentences, some of those may even go for more than a page, in which commas take place of periods, quotation marks, semicolons and colons. I have found something which one of its kind as far as narrative style of the book is concerned wherein narrative shift in the voices of characters may be identified with fist capital letter of the phrase, which may not be discernible immediately. The characters are referred to by descriptive appellations such as "the doctor's wife", "the car thief", or "the first blind man". Given the characters' blindness, some of these names seem ironic ("the boy with the squint" or "the girl with the dark glasses"), his style reflecting the recurring themes of identity and meaning, showing the imbecility and impotence of the existence of the characters. There is omniscient third person narrator amidst the changing but reliable narrative voices who, at times, tries to pull the reader into narrative showing glimpses of metafiction.
Saramago has used quite intelligently one of the characters to infuse intrusive narration through 鈥渢he doctor鈥檚 wife鈥� whose eye balls remain utilitarian throughout the madness of Blind people. She is an intelligent woman who full of survival instinct which is quintessential to exist in such mayhem. Gradually, she becomes 鈥渆ye鈥� to the main characters of the story as their existence become solely dependent on her will and act. What may appear a position of fortune is essentially an unfortunate gift to her in the city of Blind people as she has to witness all the horrors, horrific acts through her experienced but numb eyes. The doctor鈥檚 wife may also imply a type of internal narrator infused masterfully by the author to show the human virtues such as empathy, sympathy, co-ordination, assistance and perseverance amidst the madness of inhumanity.
One could not miss the ostensible impact of Franz Kafka on the prose of Jose Saramago, as his characters take the strange and outlandishly unusual events to be perfectly normal. In the start of the story itself, the sudden blindness of 鈥渢he first blind man鈥� reminds me of The Metamorphosis in which Gregor Samsa wakes up one day to find himself transformed in to vermin, and which he accepts as an ordinary situation. Like Kafka used to throw his characters into absurd and outlandish circumstances, Saramago uses the settings of the novel to bring out the most extreme reactions from the characters. Likewise, we see that Saramago, similar to Albert Camus , uses the social disintegration of people to the extreme to study the fragility of our vices and virtues.
And since disasters never come singly, at that same moment the electricians went blind who were responsible for maintaining the internal power supply and consequently that also of the generator, an old model, not automatic, that had long been awaiting replacement, this resulted, as we said before, in the elevator coming to a halt between the ninth and tenth floors.
It is like a social commentary using highly allegorical streamlined unique prose, as James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant", which may get sometimes a bit challenging to read due to its text having no quotation marks, no indentations when a speaker changes; however, if one could brave through initial pages then the book could not be put down. The book is highly enjoyable with traits of acerbic, ironical and wry humor through the existential horrors of life, dense but comprehensible, its impact is immediate and a reflection of the sensibility of Saramago, which is at once alive and significant.
鈥︹€�. , You mentioned that there are organised groups of blind people, observed the doctor, this means that new ways of living are being invented and there is no reason why we should finish up by being destroyed, as you predict, I don't know to what extent they are really organised, I only see them going around in search of food and somewhere to sleep, nothing more, We're going back to being primitive hordes, said the old man with the black eyepatch, with the difference that we are not a few thousand men and women in an immense, unspoiled nature, but thousands of millions in an uprooted, exhausted world, And blind, added the doctor's wife,鈥︹€︹€�.
4.75/5
The word Attention was uttered three times, then the voice began, the Government regrets having been forced to exercise with all urgency what it considers to be its rightful duty, to protect the population by all possible means in this present crisis, when something with all the appearance of an epidemic of blindness has broken out, provisionally known as the white sickness, and we are relying on the public spirit and cooperation of all citizens to stem any further contagion, assuming that we are dealing with a contagious disease and that we are not simply witnessing a series of as yet inexplicable coincidences.
The unanticipated and unforeseen events often strike us when we least expect them to, so much so that those could afflict you in the middle of a ride, which is still explicable. It could be one of those serendipitous and arbitrary events which happen in life but to find that you are not alone to be 'blessed' with such a travesty could numb your senses and send our entire existence for a toss, all your morals and ethics, essentially everything what life comprises of, may be gaping at you with an unfathomable existential horror. While the world is still grappling with dread of the CoVID-19, struggling hard with its all might to come to terms with the pandemic which is however yet in its embryonic phase, I noticed that quite a few people found somewhat declining fascination for dystopian, post-apocalyptic books coming to life with up surging beguile, I too found myself caught entwined with allure of the same. Though I have a bit of luxury in options- The Plague by Albert Camus and 1984 by George Orwell, to name a few- but Blindness made itself popped up out of sea of indecisiveness with eruption of glamour, the fact that Jose Saramago鈥� s world have been still elusive to me, must have played a part in it. The flipping through the very first pages sends an eerie glimpse of what the book might hold in wholeness. There is an inexplicable utter chaos which announces itself through horrific disorder of humanity, the existence of human beings is reduced to just numbers (quite similar to what we are witnessing in CoVID-19); the consciousness of individual dies out in the wake of retaining the 鈥榮ociety鈥�, but those who are renouncing their beings, ostensibly not by choice, do not have their desire in it, which is otherwise not required as it is for amelioration of humanity, some of them could be burned in the fire of hell of nothingness to save all, the unrealized beings of them gaze with delusive hope, only to become one with hell. Ah! what could it be?
Blindness, it is, or is it really? We have been brought up with the notion of blindness in which a person loses its ability to see things as they are, more often than not it reveals out empathy and compassion from us. But could Blindness draw out baffling horror out of humanity, perhaps if it succeeds in showing the ignominy of humanity to itself; probably that鈥檚 what Jose Saramago has been able to achieve with this masterpiece. It just holds an inhuman mirror which shows humiliation of entire humanity, the farcicality of civilization to reveal our savage and primitive nature hidden under its inauthentic sheath of comfort, which is stripped down to rags of acrid and stifling truth, however appalling it may be. We invariably boast about feathers we have been able to add in the crown of humanity, over the years of civilization, but have we really moved a bit, transformed a bit from what we were, Jose Saramago shattered such notions, if any, with disdain; but perhaps that is how we really are, the ghastly image he shows us is probably we are essentially.
Saramago invites us to his fantastical world, which has only one order that there are no orders- social or natural, with a shattering shriek as drivers of one of the vehicles in a seemingly ordered assortment of automobiles watches in horror as his eyes go white, everything they could perceive to send visual signals to the brain is white as if he has been thrown in a sea of white, quite unusual, earthly improbable, the mayhem follows, welcome to the world of Saramago. The omnipotent blindness, as contagious as any influenzas on the planet could be, engulfs the entire world of the author, but is it just the influenza or it hides something else, more profound, more concrete underneath it, doesn鈥檛 it talk about shallowness of our orderly society, the feebleness of our standards.
鈥�..Anyone who is going to die is already dead and does not know it, That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead, 鈥︹€�.
The author handpicks around half a dozen characters and they have been quarantined in an abandoned military establishment, wherein they are left to themselves, their lives have been totally cut off from the outer world. Their existence has been suspended between being and nothingness, as if it doesn鈥檛 matter to those who are still considered civilized, but yet to be thrown in the hell of nothingness. The life of the quarantine camp briskly degenerates into an existential hell where the blind are victimized first by the way they have been rounded up and shoved into what was a mental hospital, after that they are not given proper food either, and most appallingly by how they are reduced in their attempt to stay alive. We see new sort of barter system in the camp, which eventually takes inhumane form as human beings are demanded in return of food. The dangled and unfulfilled existence of these characters takes us through the manifold possibilities of human wickedness wherein they have been reduced to just vermin who do not have say in the social order of humanity as if their existence is just an apparition, so much so that they have not been even given names, just referred by their professions or relations. However, they are still alive and as human as anyone could be but the society becomes oblivious to their existence. Could they spring their unfulfilled existences back from the hell of nothingness or they would be crushed down under the humongous pressure of disarray, indifference, contempt and atrocities committed by the orderly world.
Life as we know it, could be changed with the rules of nature, our society, our morals, ethics may not stand the savage duress of existence. It is not just the world out there which the inhabitants of the quarantine center have to take care of, we have witnessed on numerous occasions in the history of human civilization that whenever humanity is stretched to its inhumane limit, horrendous activities take birth, the social orders go for a toss, the primitive, archaic human instincts come to play and the world of Saramago is no exception either. We witness perhaps all possible horrendous and grisly acts of humanity, unfortunately as we are not blind, our eyeballs move as swiftly they could to watch murder, thefts and rapes; tears may flow down as a stream of water from those but perhaps our own shame keeps them withhold. The characters of Saramago struggle with their need to connect with one another, form relations and bond as a community, and also with their need for individuality, there is a ever going tussle between individuality and community.
鈥︹€�. we went down all the steps of indignity, all of them, until we reached total degradation, the same might happen here albeit in a different way, there we still had the excuse that the degradation belonged to someone else, not now, now we are all equal regarding good and evil, please, don't ask me what good and what evil are, we knew what it was each time we had to act when blindness was an exception, what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with the others, not that which we have with ourselves, one should not trust the latter, forgive this moralising speech, you do not know, you cannot know, what it means to have eyes in a world in which everyone else is blind, I am not a queen, no, I am simply the one who was born to see this horror, you can feel it, I both feel and see it, 鈥︹€︹€︹€�.
The author has been able to create here an alternate reality without touching the easily sought after characteristics of science fiction, he doesn鈥檛 dive into any parallel universes, instead he just shows a world which is so strange by the word go, yet so much our own world; it takes us to the uncomfortable and unwanted recess of our memory and imagination however it is always there, which shows the ability of the author. The book is more like a philosophical treatise, without being pedantic, on human existence which shows us our own fragility and fallibility through dismantling our society, crumbling our civilization to nothing. The things which we have amassed and hard earned over the years as a reward to swank our so-called hard work to categorized those as luxuries, which only distinctive could afford, are reduced to just basic things of necessity, even some of those glorified and proudly gloated things become useless as life come back to basic needs of survival.
鈥︹€�.. We are so afraid of the idea of having to die, said the doctor's wife, that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn,鈥︹€�..
Do we have any hope then? Perhaps we do, otherwise we may not be reading this great piece of literature after progressing through so many hideous acts- genocides, wars, rapes, murders etc.- in our own history of civilization. Hope is a necessary evil, which instills confidence in you to move forward, though it may be shallow and baseless at times and that is all sometimes we need to put forth through madness of humanity. Saramago doesn鈥檛 disappoint you here either. The major characters of Saramago braved themselves to last extend of their perseverance, which comes out to be most essential of human qualities needed for survival, to remain afloat in this sea of white nothingness.
The prose of Saramago is peculiar and inimitable with unique innovations one might come across. He takes movement of post-modernism to a different level altogether thereby constructing many long, breathless sentences, some of those may even go for more than a page, in which commas take place of periods, quotation marks, semicolons and colons. I have found something which one of its kind as far as narrative style of the book is concerned wherein narrative shift in the voices of characters may be identified with fist capital letter of the phrase, which may not be discernible immediately. The characters are referred to by descriptive appellations such as "the doctor's wife", "the car thief", or "the first blind man". Given the characters' blindness, some of these names seem ironic ("the boy with the squint" or "the girl with the dark glasses"), his style reflecting the recurring themes of identity and meaning, showing the imbecility and impotence of the existence of the characters. There is omniscient third person narrator amidst the changing but reliable narrative voices who, at times, tries to pull the reader into narrative showing glimpses of metafiction.
Saramago has used quite intelligently one of the characters to infuse intrusive narration through 鈥渢he doctor鈥檚 wife鈥� whose eye balls remain utilitarian throughout the madness of Blind people. She is an intelligent woman who full of survival instinct which is quintessential to exist in such mayhem. Gradually, she becomes 鈥渆ye鈥� to the main characters of the story as their existence become solely dependent on her will and act. What may appear a position of fortune is essentially an unfortunate gift to her in the city of Blind people as she has to witness all the horrors, horrific acts through her experienced but numb eyes. The doctor鈥檚 wife may also imply a type of internal narrator infused masterfully by the author to show the human virtues such as empathy, sympathy, co-ordination, assistance and perseverance amidst the madness of inhumanity.
One could not miss the ostensible impact of Franz Kafka on the prose of Jose Saramago, as his characters take the strange and outlandishly unusual events to be perfectly normal. In the start of the story itself, the sudden blindness of 鈥渢he first blind man鈥� reminds me of The Metamorphosis in which Gregor Samsa wakes up one day to find himself transformed in to vermin, and which he accepts as an ordinary situation. Like Kafka used to throw his characters into absurd and outlandish circumstances, Saramago uses the settings of the novel to bring out the most extreme reactions from the characters. Likewise, we see that Saramago, similar to Albert Camus , uses the social disintegration of people to the extreme to study the fragility of our vices and virtues.
And since disasters never come singly, at that same moment the electricians went blind who were responsible for maintaining the internal power supply and consequently that also of the generator, an old model, not automatic, that had long been awaiting replacement, this resulted, as we said before, in the elevator coming to a halt between the ninth and tenth floors.
It is like a social commentary using highly allegorical streamlined unique prose, as James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant", which may get sometimes a bit challenging to read due to its text having no quotation marks, no indentations when a speaker changes; however, if one could brave through initial pages then the book could not be put down. The book is highly enjoyable with traits of acerbic, ironical and wry humor through the existential horrors of life, dense but comprehensible, its impact is immediate and a reflection of the sensibility of Saramago, which is at once alive and significant.
鈥︹€�. , You mentioned that there are organised groups of blind people, observed the doctor, this means that new ways of living are being invented and there is no reason why we should finish up by being destroyed, as you predict, I don't know to what extent they are really organised, I only see them going around in search of food and somewhere to sleep, nothing more, We're going back to being primitive hordes, said the old man with the black eyepatch, with the difference that we are not a few thousand men and women in an immense, unspoiled nature, but thousands of millions in an uprooted, exhausted world, And blind, added the doctor's wife,鈥︹€︹€�.
4.75/5
February 12, 2016
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鬲卮毓乇 亘賴丕 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕貙 丨鬲賶 兀賳賰 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 賱賲爻賴丕 丿丕禺賱賰貙 鬲馗亘胤 賳賮爻賰 賲鬲賱亘爻丕賸 賵兀賳鬲 鬲亘賰賷 賲毓 丕賱兀亘胤丕賱貙 鬲囟丨賰 賲毓賴賲, 賵鬲丨夭賳 賲毓賴賲
賱賰賳 賯賱賷賱丞 賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲購乇毓亘賰
賱賷爻 丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 鬲卮毓乇 亘賴 毓賳丿 賯乇丕亍鬲賰 賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賱爻鬲賷賮賳 賰賷賳噩, 兀賵 丌丿噩丕乇 丌賱丕賳 亘賵
兀賵 賲丕 鬲卮毓乇 亘賴 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍鬲賰 賱兀賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 丕賱兀卮亘丕丨 賵丕賱賲匕丐賵亘賷賳
亘賱 賴賵 丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 賷賳鬲丕亘賰 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍鬲賰 賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賱爻賮賷丞 乇賲夭賷丞
丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲禺卮賶 賲賳 兀賳 鬲賱賯賶 丕賱賲氐賷乇 匕丕鬲賴 賲賲丕 賷賱丕賯賷賴 兀亘胤丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
鬲禺卮賶 亘毓丿 賰購賱 氐賮丨丞 兀賳 鬲賮賯丿 亘氐乇賰, 兀賵 兀賳 鬲睾乇賯 賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱賳賴乇 丕賱丨賱賷亘賷 賰賲丕 賵氐賮賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘
爻丕乇賲丕噩賵 兀乇毓亘賳賷
胤賵賱 賯乇丕亍鬲賷 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵毓賷賳丕賷 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 毓賱賶 丕鬲爻丕毓賴賲丕 乇亘賲丕 賲賳 亘卮丕毓丞 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬貙 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 賴賷 丨乇賰丞 睾乇賷夭賷丞 禺賵賮丕賸 賲賳 賲賱丕賯丕丞 丕賱賲氐賷乇 賳賮爻賴
賰賷賮 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 乇爻賲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 賵丕賱賲兀爻丕丞 亘賴匕丕 丕賱廿亘丿丕毓
賰賷賮 賷胤賵毓 丕賱丨亘賰丞 賵丕賱兀丨丿丕孬貙 賵賷噩毓賱賰 鬲乇丕賴丕 兀賲丕賲賰貙 賵鬲毓賷卮 亘丿丕禺賱賴丕
亘乇賴賳鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賱賶 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳賷丞 賱賱廿賳爻丕賳貙 丕噩毓賱賴 賷賮賯丿 丨丕爻丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賮賯胤 賲賳 丨賵丕爻賴 賱鬲賰卮賮 睾乇丕卅夭賴 賵胤亘賷毓鬲賴 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳賷丞 賵丕賱兀賳丕賳賷丞 毓賳 賳賮爻賴丕
爻賷爻賷乇 賴丕卅賲丕賸 毓賱賶 賵噩賴賴貙 亘賱丕 鬲賳馗賷賲貙 賴賲賴 丕賱兀賵賱 賵丕賱兀禺賷乇 賴賵 廿卮亘丕毓 睾乇丕卅夭賴
賵廿匕丕 鬲賲鬲毓 亘亘毓囟 丕賱賯賵丞 賷購氐亘丨 賴賲賴 丕賱孬丕賳賷 賴賵 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賵丕賱爻賷胤乇丞
兀賰丕賳 睾乇賷亘丕賸 兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賴賷 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲賮賯丿 亘氐乇賴丕責
賰賷賮 賱賱賵亘丕亍 兀賳 賷賯鬲乇亘 賲賳 賲賱丕賰 賲孬賱賴丕貙 賲賱丕賰 賷卮毓乇 兀賳 賲爻卅賵賱賷鬲賴 賵賵丕噩亘賴 賴賵 賲爻丕毓丿丞 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 賲賲賳 賱丕 賷賯賵賵賳 毓賱賶 賲爻丕毓丿丞 兀賳賮爻賴賲
賱丕 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳賴丕 鬲賯丿賲 賱賴賲 丕賱毓賵賳 兀賵 丕賱賲爻丕毓丿丞 亘賱 鬲卮毓乇 廿賳賴 賳丿丕亍 丕賱賵丕噩亘
廿賳賴 丕賱爻亘亘 丕賱匕賷 亘賯賷鬲 毓賷賳丕賴丕 爻賱賷賲鬲丕賳 賱兀噩賱賴
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲爻賰 亘賷丿 胤賮賱賴丕 賱賷丨亘賵 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷爻賯胤, 鬲賲爻賰 亘賷丿賰 賱鬲乇卮丿賰貙 賱鬲賰賳 毓賷賳賷賰 丕賱賱鬲賷賳 賲丕 毓丕丿 亘丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲賴賲丕 兀賳 賷亘氐乇賵丕
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳馗賮 胤賮賱賴丕 丿賵賳 鬲賯夭夭 兀賵 鬲兀賮賮貙 鬲購胤賴乇賰 賲賳 賰購賱 賲丕 賷毓賱賯 亘賰 賲賳 賯丕匕賵乇丕鬲 丕賱賲丨噩乇
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲夭兀乇 丨賷賳 賷賯鬲乇亘 丕賱禺胤乇 賲賳 兀亘賳丕卅賴丕貙 鬲賯鬲賱 廿匕丕 賰丕賳 賴賵 丕賱禺賷丕乇 丕賱賵丨賷丿 賱鬲丿丕賮毓 毓賳 賲噩賲賵毓鬲賴丕..
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲馗賱 鬲卮毓乇 亘丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 鬲噩丕賴 兀胤賮丕賱賴丕 丨鬲賶 亘毓丿 兀賳 賷賰亘乇賵丕貙 鬲馗賱 賴賷 鬲卮毓乇 亘賲爻卅賵賱賷鬲賴丕 鬲噩丕賴 賲噩賲賵毓鬲賴丕貙 丨賲丕賷鬲賴丕 賵廿胤毓丕賲賴丕..
賰賷賮 賱賵亘丕亍 賰賴匕丕 兀賳 賷賯鬲乇亘 賲賳 賰鬲賱丞 丨賳丕賳 賵卮噩丕毓丞 賵毓胤丕亍 賲孬賱賴丕責
賵氐賮賴 賱賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 兀乇毓亘賳賷
賵亘丕亍 賰賴匕丕 賯丿 賷賰卮賮 毓賳 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱賯匕乇 賮賷 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳貙 賯丿 賷賯賱亘 賲丿賷賳丞 乇兀爻丕賸 毓賱賶 毓賯亘
賵賯丿 賷乇丿賴丕 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶 賱賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶.
賵氐賮賴 賱丨丕賱鬲賴賲 亘賱丕 賲丕亍 賵賱丕 胤毓丕賲, 噩毓賱賳賷 兀鬲爻丕亍賱貙 賰賷賮 毓丕卮 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱兀賵丕卅賱責
賷亘丿賵 兀賳賴 賲賳 丕賱爻賴賱 兀賳 鬲毓鬲丕丿 氐毓賵亘丞 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丨賷賳賲丕 鬲噩丿賴丕 毓賱賶 賲丕 賴賷 毓賱賷賴 賱賰賳 亘毓丿 兀賳 鬲毓鬲丕丿 兀賳鬲 賵噩爻丿賰 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲賯丿賲 賵丕賱鬲賰賳賵賱賵噩賷丕 賷氐毓亘 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 毓賱賷賰 兀賳 鬲鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 亘賲賮乇丿賴丕!
賱丕 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 丕賱賲胤乇貙 賵賱丕 兀賰賱 夭賴賵乇 賵兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇貙 賵賱丕 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 丌亘丕乇 賵鬲噩丕賵賷賮 丕賱賲賷丕賴
賷購氐亘丨 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賰 囟乇亘 賲賳 囟乇賵亘 丕賱賲爻鬲丨賷賱 兀賳 鬲鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 賵噩賴丕賸 賱賵噩賴 賵亘丿賵賳 賲乇丕丨賱 鬲賮氐賱 亘賷賳賰賲丕!
賲購乇賴賯丞 賱賰賳 亘毓丿 丕賳鬲賴丕卅賷 賲賳 賯乇丕卅鬲賴丕 兀卮毓乇 兀賳賷 兀氐亘丨鬲 兀亘氐乇 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 匕賷 賯亘賱貨 乇亘賲丕 賴賷 丕賱亘氐賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賶 賷噩毓賱賰 爻丕乇賲丕噩賵 鬲丿乇賰賴丕 賵賷兀禺丿 亘賷丿賰 賱賷噩毓賱賰 鬲鬲賱賲爻賴丕 丿丕禺賱賰貙 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 賴賵 賮賯胤 鬲賯丿賷乇 賱賴匕賴 丕賱兀毓賷賳貙 亘毓丿 賲丕 卮丕賴丿鬲賴 賲賳 賵賷賱丕鬲 賮賯丿 丕賱亘氐乇
賱丕 兀丿乇賷 鬲丨丿賷丿丕賸 賱賰賳 賰購賱 賲丕 兀丿乇賰賴 兀賳賴丕 睾賷乇鬲 卮賷亍 丿丕禺賱賷.
廿賳賴 丕賱兀亘丿丕毓 賲鬲噩爻丿 賮賷 賰賱賲丕鬲!
鬲賲賾鬲
賱賰賳 賯賱賷賱丞 賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲賯賮 兀賲丕賲賴丕 賲匕賴賵賱丕賸貙 賲卮丿賵賴丕賸貙 鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲賮賰乇貙 鬲睾賷賾乇賰貙 鬲睾賷乇 賳馗乇鬲賰 賱賰購賱 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 賲賳 丨賵賱賰
鬲乇鬲賮毓 亘賰 賱兀毓賱賶 賱鬲乇賶 丕賱賲賵噩賵丿丕鬲 賲賳 匕丕鬲 兀爻賲賶 賵兀賳賯賶 賵兀胤賴乇 賱鬲乇賶 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 噩賱賷賾丞 賵丕囟丨丞
鬲乇賶 丕賱毓賮賳 丕賱賲購爻鬲卮乇賷 賮賷 賰購賱 賲丕 丨賵賱賰貙 鬲購氐丿賲賰 丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳 丕賱毓賮賳 賱丕 賷賳亘毓 賲賲丕 丨賵賱賰 賮賯胤貙 亘賱 賷賳亘毓 賲賳 丿丕禺賱賰 兀賷囟丕賸
賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賲丕 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 鬲毓賾亘乇 毓賳 賲卮丕毓乇賳丕貨 丕賱賮乇丨貙 丕賱丨夭賳貙 丕賱亘賰丕亍貙 丕賱禺賵賮貙 丕賱兀賲賱.
鬲卮毓乇 亘賴丕 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕貙 丨鬲賶 兀賳賰 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 賱賲爻賴丕 丿丕禺賱賰貙 鬲馗亘胤 賳賮爻賰 賲鬲賱亘爻丕賸 賵兀賳鬲 鬲亘賰賷 賲毓 丕賱兀亘胤丕賱貙 鬲囟丨賰 賲毓賴賲, 賵鬲丨夭賳 賲毓賴賲
賱賰賳 賯賱賷賱丞 賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲購乇毓亘賰
賱賷爻 丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 鬲卮毓乇 亘賴 毓賳丿 賯乇丕亍鬲賰 賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賱爻鬲賷賮賳 賰賷賳噩, 兀賵 丌丿噩丕乇 丌賱丕賳 亘賵
兀賵 賲丕 鬲卮毓乇 亘賴 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍鬲賰 賱兀賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 丕賱兀卮亘丕丨 賵丕賱賲匕丐賵亘賷賳
亘賱 賴賵 丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 賷賳鬲丕亘賰 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍鬲賰 賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賱爻賮賷丞 乇賲夭賷丞
丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲禺卮賶 賲賳 兀賳 鬲賱賯賶 丕賱賲氐賷乇 匕丕鬲賴 賲賲丕 賷賱丕賯賷賴 兀亘胤丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
鬲禺卮賶 亘毓丿 賰購賱 氐賮丨丞 兀賳 鬲賮賯丿 亘氐乇賰, 兀賵 兀賳 鬲睾乇賯 賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱賳賴乇 丕賱丨賱賷亘賷 賰賲丕 賵氐賮賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘
爻丕乇賲丕噩賵 兀乇毓亘賳賷
胤賵賱 賯乇丕亍鬲賷 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵毓賷賳丕賷 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 毓賱賶 丕鬲爻丕毓賴賲丕 乇亘賲丕 賲賳 亘卮丕毓丞 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬貙 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 賴賷 丨乇賰丞 睾乇賷夭賷丞 禺賵賮丕賸 賲賳 賲賱丕賯丕丞 丕賱賲氐賷乇 賳賮爻賴
賰賷賮 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 乇爻賲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 賵丕賱賲兀爻丕丞 亘賴匕丕 丕賱廿亘丿丕毓
賰賷賮 賷胤賵毓 丕賱丨亘賰丞 賵丕賱兀丨丿丕孬貙 賵賷噩毓賱賰 鬲乇丕賴丕 兀賲丕賲賰貙 賵鬲毓賷卮 亘丿丕禺賱賴丕
亘乇賴賳鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賱賶 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳賷丞 賱賱廿賳爻丕賳貙 丕噩毓賱賴 賷賮賯丿 丨丕爻丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賮賯胤 賲賳 丨賵丕爻賴 賱鬲賰卮賮 睾乇丕卅夭賴 賵胤亘賷毓鬲賴 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳賷丞 賵丕賱兀賳丕賳賷丞 毓賳 賳賮爻賴丕
爻賷爻賷乇 賴丕卅賲丕賸 毓賱賶 賵噩賴賴貙 亘賱丕 鬲賳馗賷賲貙 賴賲賴 丕賱兀賵賱 賵丕賱兀禺賷乇 賴賵 廿卮亘丕毓 睾乇丕卅夭賴
賵廿匕丕 鬲賲鬲毓 亘亘毓囟 丕賱賯賵丞 賷購氐亘丨 賴賲賴 丕賱孬丕賳賷 賴賵 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賵丕賱爻賷胤乇丞
兀賰丕賳 睾乇賷亘丕賸 兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賴賷 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲賮賯丿 亘氐乇賴丕責
賰賷賮 賱賱賵亘丕亍 兀賳 賷賯鬲乇亘 賲賳 賲賱丕賰 賲孬賱賴丕貙 賲賱丕賰 賷卮毓乇 兀賳 賲爻卅賵賱賷鬲賴 賵賵丕噩亘賴 賴賵 賲爻丕毓丿丞 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳 賲賲賳 賱丕 賷賯賵賵賳 毓賱賶 賲爻丕毓丿丞 兀賳賮爻賴賲
賱丕 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳賴丕 鬲賯丿賲 賱賴賲 丕賱毓賵賳 兀賵 丕賱賲爻丕毓丿丞 亘賱 鬲卮毓乇 廿賳賴 賳丿丕亍 丕賱賵丕噩亘
廿賳賴 丕賱爻亘亘 丕賱匕賷 亘賯賷鬲 毓賷賳丕賴丕 爻賱賷賲鬲丕賳 賱兀噩賱賴
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲爻賰 亘賷丿 胤賮賱賴丕 賱賷丨亘賵 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷爻賯胤, 鬲賲爻賰 亘賷丿賰 賱鬲乇卮丿賰貙 賱鬲賰賳 毓賷賳賷賰 丕賱賱鬲賷賳 賲丕 毓丕丿 亘丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲賴賲丕 兀賳 賷亘氐乇賵丕
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳馗賮 胤賮賱賴丕 丿賵賳 鬲賯夭夭 兀賵 鬲兀賮賮貙 鬲購胤賴乇賰 賲賳 賰購賱 賲丕 賷毓賱賯 亘賰 賲賳 賯丕匕賵乇丕鬲 丕賱賲丨噩乇
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲夭兀乇 丨賷賳 賷賯鬲乇亘 丕賱禺胤乇 賲賳 兀亘賳丕卅賴丕貙 鬲賯鬲賱 廿匕丕 賰丕賳 賴賵 丕賱禺賷丕乇 丕賱賵丨賷丿 賱鬲丿丕賮毓 毓賳 賲噩賲賵毓鬲賴丕..
賰丕賱兀賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲馗賱 鬲卮毓乇 亘丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 鬲噩丕賴 兀胤賮丕賱賴丕 丨鬲賶 亘毓丿 兀賳 賷賰亘乇賵丕貙 鬲馗賱 賴賷 鬲卮毓乇 亘賲爻卅賵賱賷鬲賴丕 鬲噩丕賴 賲噩賲賵毓鬲賴丕貙 丨賲丕賷鬲賴丕 賵廿胤毓丕賲賴丕..
賰賷賮 賱賵亘丕亍 賰賴匕丕 兀賳 賷賯鬲乇亘 賲賳 賰鬲賱丞 丨賳丕賳 賵卮噩丕毓丞 賵毓胤丕亍 賲孬賱賴丕責
賵氐賮賴 賱賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 兀乇毓亘賳賷
賵亘丕亍 賰賴匕丕 賯丿 賷賰卮賮 毓賳 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱賯匕乇 賮賷 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳貙 賯丿 賷賯賱亘 賲丿賷賳丞 乇兀爻丕賸 毓賱賶 毓賯亘
賵賯丿 賷乇丿賴丕 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶 賱賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶.
賵氐賮賴 賱丨丕賱鬲賴賲 亘賱丕 賲丕亍 賵賱丕 胤毓丕賲, 噩毓賱賳賷 兀鬲爻丕亍賱貙 賰賷賮 毓丕卮 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱兀賵丕卅賱責
賷亘丿賵 兀賳賴 賲賳 丕賱爻賴賱 兀賳 鬲毓鬲丕丿 氐毓賵亘丞 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丨賷賳賲丕 鬲噩丿賴丕 毓賱賶 賲丕 賴賷 毓賱賷賴 賱賰賳 亘毓丿 兀賳 鬲毓鬲丕丿 兀賳鬲 賵噩爻丿賰 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲賯丿賲 賵丕賱鬲賰賳賵賱賵噩賷丕 賷氐毓亘 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 毓賱賷賰 兀賳 鬲鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 亘賲賮乇丿賴丕!
賱丕 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 丕賱賲胤乇貙 賵賱丕 兀賰賱 夭賴賵乇 賵兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱兀卮噩丕乇貙 賵賱丕 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 丌亘丕乇 賵鬲噩丕賵賷賮 丕賱賲賷丕賴
賷購氐亘丨 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賰 囟乇亘 賲賳 囟乇賵亘 丕賱賲爻鬲丨賷賱 兀賳 鬲鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 賵噩賴丕賸 賱賵噩賴 賵亘丿賵賳 賲乇丕丨賱 鬲賮氐賱 亘賷賳賰賲丕!
賲購乇賴賯丞 賱賰賳 亘毓丿 丕賳鬲賴丕卅賷 賲賳 賯乇丕卅鬲賴丕 兀卮毓乇 兀賳賷 兀氐亘丨鬲 兀亘氐乇 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 匕賷 賯亘賱貨 乇亘賲丕 賴賷 丕賱亘氐賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賶 賷噩毓賱賰 爻丕乇賲丕噩賵 鬲丿乇賰賴丕 賵賷兀禺丿 亘賷丿賰 賱賷噩毓賱賰 鬲鬲賱賲爻賴丕 丿丕禺賱賰貙 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 賴賵 賮賯胤 鬲賯丿賷乇 賱賴匕賴 丕賱兀毓賷賳貙 亘毓丿 賲丕 卮丕賴丿鬲賴 賲賳 賵賷賱丕鬲 賮賯丿 丕賱亘氐乇
賱丕 兀丿乇賷 鬲丨丿賷丿丕賸 賱賰賳 賰購賱 賲丕 兀丿乇賰賴 兀賳賴丕 睾賷乇鬲 卮賷亍 丿丕禺賱賷.
廿賳賴 丕賱兀亘丿丕毓 賲鬲噩爻丿 賮賷 賰賱賲丕鬲!
鬲賲賾鬲
September 19, 2019
" 賱丕 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賳丕 毓賲賷賳丕貙 亘賱 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賳丕 毓賲賷丕賳貙 毓賲賷丕賳 賷乇賵賳貙 亘卮乇賹 毓賲賷丕賳 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賵賳 兀賳 賷乇賵丕貙 賱賰賳賴賲 賱丕 賷乇賵賳 "
爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 毓亘賯乇賷 亘賱丕 卮賰.. 賰丕鬲亘 賲鬲賲乇丿 毓賱賶 賰賱 卮賷亍貙 丕爻鬲胤丕毓 兀賳 賷賳孬乇 賮賰乇賴 毓賱賶 丕賱賵乇賯 亘乇賲夭賷丞 賲丿賴卮丞貙 賵賮賷 賲卮賴丿 賵丕丨丿 兀賮囟賶 亘賰賱 賮賱爻賮鬲賴 賵賲丕 兀乇丕丿 兀賳 賷賯賵賱.
賴匕賴 乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳 丕賱毓賲賶貙 賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 賰兀賷 毓賲賶貙 亘賱 賴賵 睾乇賯 賮賷 亘丨乇賺 丨賱賷亘賷貙 賰賲孬賱 兀卮毓丞 丕賱卮賲爻 賵爻胤 丕賱囟亘丕亘貙 丕賱毓賲賶 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賵賱 丕賱乇丐賷丞 賰賱賴丕 賱賱兀亘賷囟.. 賷亘丿兀 丕賱賲乇囟 亘廿氐丕亘丞 兀丨丿賴賲 賵賲賳 孬賲 鬲鬲賮卮賶 丕賱毓丿賵賶 賵賱賰賷 賷丨丕氐乇賵賴 賷噩賲毓賵丕 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 賮賷 賲賰丕賳賺 賵丕丨丿 丨賷孬 賷毓賷卮賵丕 賰丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲貙 孬賲 賷鬲賮卮賶 丕賱賲乇囟 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賱丕 賷鬲乇賰 兀丨丿 爻賵賶 賵丕丨丿丞貙 賷毓賲賶 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賱賰賳賴丕 鬲乇賶貙 鬲乇賶 賱賰賳賴丕 賱丕 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 鬲乇毓賶 丕賱噩賲賷毓.
賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳丿賲丕 賷丿禺賱賵丕 丕賱賰賳賷爻丞 賰賷 賷爻鬲乇賷丨賵丕 賮賷賴丕 賮鬲乇賶 兀賳 鬲賲孬丕賱 丕賱賲爻賷丨 兀賷囟賸丕 毓賱賶 毓賷賳賷賴 毓氐丕亘丞 亘賷囟丕亍貙 賵賰賱 丕賱氐賵乇 丕賱賲賯丿爻丞 鬲賲 胤賱丕亍 毓賷賵賳賴丕 亘丕賱兀亘賷囟貙 賲賯胤毓 毓亘賯乇賷貙 賴賷賾兀 賱賴 爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 賲賳匕 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 亘賰賱 賲丕 毓丕賳鬲賴 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賲賳 丕賳毓丿丕賲 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳賷丞. 賵賱賴匕丕 賰丕賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 亘廿賱丨丕丿賴 丿丕卅賲 丕賱鬲氐丕丿賲 賲毓 丕賱賰賳賷爻丞貙 乇亘賲丕 睾賱亘鬲 丕賱乇賲夭賷丞 毓賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賱賰賳 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 兀禺乇賶 賰丕賳 兀賰孬乇 賵囟賵丨賸丕 賵爻禺乇賷丞.
賷賵噩丿 噩夭亍 賰亘賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲鬲毓丞 賮賷 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨賰賷 賮賷賴丕 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 賲鬲賶 兀氐亘丨鬲 丕賱丿賳賷丕 亘賷囟丕亍 賮賷 兀毓賷賳賴賲貙 賵禺氐賵氐賸丕 賮賷 賵氐賮 丕賱卮禺氐 丕賱匕賷 賷氐賮 丕賱賱賵丨丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓賲賶 賵賴賵 賷卮丕賴丿賴丕.. 賵賱丕 賷賵噩丿 兀亘賱睾 賲賳 毓亘丕乇丞 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 匕丕鬲 丕賱賳馗丕乇丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍: "賯丿 賷爻亘亘 丕賱禺賵賮 丕賱毓賲賶"
賵賲賳 丕賱賲賱丕丨馗 兀賱賾丕 賵噩賵丿 賱賱兀爻賲丕亍 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賰賱 卮禺氐 賷毓乇賮 亘氐賮丞 賮賯胤貙 賵賴匕賴 賲賳 丕賱賳賯丕胤 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞.
兀孬乇鬲 賮賷賾 賰孬賷乇賸丕 兀賵賱 禺賲爻賵賳 氐賮丨丞貙 丨賷賳 亘丿兀 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賷賮賯丿 亘氐乇賴貙 乇亘賲丕 卮毓乇鬲 賰孬賷乇賸丕 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賳賴乇 丕賱丨賱賷亘賷 賷睾賲乇賳賷 丨賷賳賲丕 兀睾賲囟 毓賷賳賷賾貙 賰賲丕 兀孬乇鬲 丌禺乇 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲 丨賷賳 亘丿丐賵丕 賮賷 丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 亘氐乇賴賲貙 賱賰賳 賲丕 亘賷賳賴賲丕 賱賲 賷賰賳 賱賴 鬲兀孬賷乇 賲賲丕孬賱貙 賵賲丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 賲丕 毓丕賳賵賴 丿丕禺賱 賲爻鬲卮賮賶 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷賳 丕賱鬲賷 丨噩夭賵丕 亘賴丕 毓賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賲丕 兀毓乇賮賴 兀賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘丕卅爻丞 賱賰賳賴丕 賱賲 鬲賰賳 匕丕鬲 鬲兀孬賷乇 賯賵賷貙 賱賲 賷噩毓賱賳賷 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 兀卮毓乇 亘丕賱賲兀爻丕丞 賰賲丕 賷噩亘.
賰賲丕 賵賯毓 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賲乇鬲賷賳 賮賷 丕賱兀禺胤丕亍 爻賴賵丕賸貙 兀丨丿賴賲丕 賮賷 丕賱氐賮丨丞 "264" 丨賷賳 賯丕賱 毓賳 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 兀賳賴丕 賳丕賲鬲 賲毓 兀丨丿賴賲丕 -丕賱賰賴賱 賵丕賱胤亘賷亘- 毓賳丿賲丕 賰丕賳賵丕 賲丨鬲噩夭賷賳貙 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賳丕賲鬲 賲毓 丕賱丕孬賳賷賳.. 賵丕賱孬丕賳賷 賰丕賳 賯亘賱 賴匕丕 賵賱賰賳賷 賱賲 兀毓乇賴 丕賳鬲亘丕賴賸丕 賰亘賷乇賸丕 賵賳爻賷鬲 兀賳 兀丨丿丿 賲賵囟毓賴.
賲丕 賷賮毓賱賴 爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賴 亘鬲毓賲丿 毓丿賲 賮氐賱 丕賱丨賵丕乇 毓賳 丕賱爻乇丿 賲乇亘賰 亘毓囟 丕賱卮賷亍貙 禺氐賵氐賸丕 賵兀賳 丕賱爻丕乇丿 禺丕乇噩賷 兀賵 賲賵囟賵毓賷貙 乇亘賲丕 賱賲 賷賰賳 賱賴匕丕 鬲兀孬賷乇 賰亘賷乇 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 廿賱賶賾 賱兀賳賷 賯乇兀鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘毓丿 兀賳 丕賳鬲賴賷鬲 賲賳 乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷 丨囟乇丞 丕賱毓賳賯丕亍 賵丕賱禺賱 丕賱賵賮賷 賵丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱賶 賳賮爻 丕賱賳爻賯.
賯亘賱 賯乇丕亍丞 丌禺乇 禺賲爻賷賳 氐賮丨丞 賰丕賳 鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞 孬賱丕孬 賳噩賵賲貙 賵亘毓丿 丕賱丕賳鬲賴丕亍 兀氐亘丨 孬賱丕孬丞 賵賳氐賮 兀賯乇亘 賱賱兀乇亘毓丞貙 乇亘賲丕 賱賲 兀噩丿 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓馗賷賲丞 賰賲丕 賵氐賮 丕賱賰孬賷乇賷賳 賵賱賰賳賴丕 乇丕卅毓丞 毓賱賶 賰賱 丨丕賱貙 賵丕乇鬲賮丕毓 鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賰丕賳 賱毓亘賯乇賷丞 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賮賷 廿丿丕乇丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賰賲丕 賷乇賷丿.
December 21, 2023
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November 1, 2015
賱丕 亘丿 賱賲賳 賷夭賵乇 亘丕乇賷爻 兀賵 賱賳丿賳 兀賵 丿亘賷 兀賳 賷噩乇亘 鬲賳丕賵賱 丕賱毓卮丕亍 賮賷 賲胤毓賲 "丕賱馗賱丕賲"貙 賮丕賱賲胤毓賲 賰賲丕 賷賵丨賷 丕爻賲賴 睾丕乇賯 賮賷 丕賱毓鬲賲丞貙 賵賷毓賲賱 亘賴 賳丿賱 毓賲賷丕賳 爻賷鬲丨賵賱賵賳 廿賱賶 丕賱毓賷賳 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲亘氐乇 亘賴丕 賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕賲爻貙 賵鬲亘賱睾 丕賱廿孬丕乇丞 匕乇賵鬲賴丕 毓賳丿賲丕 爻鬲噩賱爻 廿賱賶 丕賱胤丕賵賱丞 賵兀賲丕賲賰 兀胤亘丕賯 賱丕 鬲毓乇賮 賲丕賮賷賴丕 賵賱丕 賰賷賮 鬲氐賱 廿賱賷賴丕 賱鬲囟毓賴丕 賮賷 賮賲賰. 賯丿 賱丕 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱鬲噩锟斤拷亘丞 賲賲鬲毓丞貙 賵賱賰賳賴丕 丨鬲賲賸丕 爻鬲毓胤賷賰 賲匕丕賯賸丕 -賵賱賵 賱爻丕毓丕鬲- 毓賳 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷毓賷卮賴丕 賮丕賯丿賵 丕賱亘氐乇 賵丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱匕賷 賷鬲毓孬乇賵賳 賮賷賴!
兀賵 亘廿賲賰丕賳 賲賳 賱賲 賷鬲爻賳賶 賱賴 夭賷丕乇丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賲胤毓賲 兀賳 賷賯乇兀 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賵亘丕亍 睾丕賲囟 賷氐賷亘 廿丨丿賶 丕賱賲丿賳貙 丨賷孬 賷氐丕亘 兀賴賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 亘丕賱毓賲賶 賮噩兀丞貙 賲賲丕 賷禺賱賯 賲賵噩丞 賲賳 丕賱匕毓乇 賵丕賱賮賵囟賶 丕賱毓丕乇賲丞.
賰丕賳鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 -亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷- 亘賲孬丕亘丞 鬲兀卮賷乇丞 丕賱丿禺賵賱 廿賱賶 賲賲賱賰丞 禺賵爻賷賴 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 賯亘賱 爻賳賵丕鬲. 毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 兀賳賳賷 爻亘賯 賵兀賳 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賱賲爻鬲賵丨賶 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 廿賱丕 兀賳賴 賱丕 卮賷亍 賷毓丿賱 賲鬲毓丞 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘!
賷爻鬲賰卮賮 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮乇囟賷丞 賲孬賷乇丞: 賲丕匕丕 賱賵 鬲丨賵賱 賲噩鬲賲毓 賲丕 -賮噩兀丞- 廿賱賶 賲噩賲賵毓丞 賲賳 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳責 賰賷賮 爻賷鬲毓丕賲賱 賵賷毓丕賲賱 兀賮乇丕丿 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 亘毓囟賴賲 丕賱亘毓囟責 兀賷 鬲睾賷賷乇 爻賷氐賷亘 亘賳賷丞 賲噩鬲賲毓 兀賮乇丕丿賴 賲賳 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳責 賴賱 爻賷丨賰賲 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱賲胤丕賮 賲賳 亘賷丿賴 丕賱賯賵丞 賵丕賱爻賱丕丨責 賴賱 爻賷爻賵丿 "賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱睾丕亘丞" 丕賱匕賷 鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴 鬲賵賲丕爻 賴賵亘夭貙 丕賱賮賷賱爻賵賮 丕賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷 丕賱匕賷 兀毓賱賳 毓賳 "匕卅亘賷丞 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳" 丨賷賳賲丕 兀胤賱賯 毓亘丕乇鬲賴 丕賱卮賴賷乇丞貙 "賱賯丿 兀氐亘丨 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 匕卅亘丕賸 毓賱賶 兀禺賷賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳"!
賴賳丕賱賰 卮賷卅丕賳 丌禺乇丕賳貙 亘毓賷丿賸丕 毓賳 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 賵亘毓賷丿賸丕 毓賳 乇賲夭賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵丨亘賰鬲賴丕 丕賱鬲賷 兀卮亘毓賴丕 丕賱賯乇丕亍/丕賱賳賯丕丿 亘丨孬賸丕貙 卮丿丕 丕賳鬲亘丕賴賷. 兀丨丿賴賲丕 兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞!
爻賷賱丕丨馗 賲賳 賷賯乇兀 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賷爻鬲禺丿賲 丕賱賮賵丕氐賱 (貙) 賵丕賱賳賯丕胤 (.) 賮賯胤 賮賷 賱賲賱賲丞 丨賵丕乇丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞. 賮賱丕 賵噩賵丿 賱賱賮賵丕氐賱 丕賱賲賳賯賵胤丞 (貨) 賵賱丕 賵噩賵丿 賱賱兀賯賵丕爻 ( ) 兀賵 丕賱卮乇胤丕鬲 (-) 兀賵 丕賱賳賯丕胤 丕賱乇兀爻賷丞 (:) 兀賵 丨鬲賶 毓賱丕賲丕鬲 丕賱廿賯鬲亘丕爻 (") 兀賷 兀賳賴 -賵亘賲毓賳賶 丌禺乇- 賷毓賲賱 毓賱賶 亘賳丕亍 爻乇丿 睾丕乇賯 賮賷 丨丕賱丞 賲賳 丕賱賮賵囟賶 丕賱賲鬲乇丕賲賷丞 丕賱丕胤乇丕賮.
爻賷氐丕亘 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘賰孬賷乇賺 賲賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賰丕亘貙 賵爻賷爻鬲睾乇賯賴 亘毓囟 丕賱賵賯鬲 賱賷毓鬲丕丿 毓賱賶 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞.
丕賱兀賲乇 丕賱丌禺乇 丕賱匕賷 卮丿 丕賳鬲亘丕賴賷貙 賵兀乇亘賰賳賷 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賯丿乇 丕賱匕賷 兀乇亘賰鬲賳賷 賮賷賴 丕賱丨賵丕乇丕鬲貙 毓丿賲 鬲爻賲賷丞 兀賷 賲賳 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賵丕賱廿賰鬲賮丕亍 亘丕賱廿卮丕乇丞 廿賱賷賴賲 賴賰匕丕: 丕賱兀毓賲賶 丕賱兀賵賱貙 夭賵噩丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘貙 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍!
賴匕賴 丕賱賲賳丕賵乇丞 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘賷丞 (廿賳 氐丨 丕賱賵氐賮) 賴丿賮賴丕 丕賱鬲卮賵賷卮 毓賱賶 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘噩毓賱 毓賲賱賷丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 兀賰孬乇 氐毓賵亘丞. 賰賲 賲乇丞 鬲賵賯賮鬲 -毓夭賷夭賷 丕賱賯丕乇卅- 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍丞 兀丨丿 丕賱丨賵丕乇丕鬲 賵鬲爻丕亍賱鬲 "賲賳 賯丕賱 賴匕丕責" 賴賱 賴賷 夭賵噩丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘 兀賲 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 兀賲 兀賲 !!
賵賴賷 亘丕賱賲賳丕爻亘丞 賳賮爻 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 鬲鬲賮丕毓賱 亘賴丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱毓賲賷丕亍 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
亘丕禺鬲氐丕乇 .. 廿賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賷乇賷丿 兀賳 賷噩毓賱 丕賱賯丕乇卅 賷卮毓乇 亘兀賳賴 兀毓賲賶 噩夭卅賷丕.
賱賴匕丕 丕賱爻亘亘 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賴賲 賲賳 賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賱賲爻鬲賵丨賶 賲賳賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 兀賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 兀卮丕丿 亘賴貙 賵賯丕賱 亘毓丿 賲卮丕賴丿鬲賴 : 兀卮毓乇 亘爻毓丕丿丞 賵兀賳丕 兀卮丕賴丿 丕賱賮賷賱賲 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱爻毓丕丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 卮毓乇鬲 亘賴丕 亘毓丿 兀賳 兀賳賴賷鬲 賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞!!
兀賵 亘廿賲賰丕賳 賲賳 賱賲 賷鬲爻賳賶 賱賴 夭賷丕乇丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賲胤毓賲 兀賳 賷賯乇兀 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賵亘丕亍 睾丕賲囟 賷氐賷亘 廿丨丿賶 丕賱賲丿賳貙 丨賷孬 賷氐丕亘 兀賴賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 亘丕賱毓賲賶 賮噩兀丞貙 賲賲丕 賷禺賱賯 賲賵噩丞 賲賳 丕賱匕毓乇 賵丕賱賮賵囟賶 丕賱毓丕乇賲丞.
賰丕賳鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 -亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷- 亘賲孬丕亘丞 鬲兀卮賷乇丞 丕賱丿禺賵賱 廿賱賶 賲賲賱賰丞 禺賵爻賷賴 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 賯亘賱 爻賳賵丕鬲. 毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 兀賳賳賷 爻亘賯 賵兀賳 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賱賲爻鬲賵丨賶 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 廿賱丕 兀賳賴 賱丕 卮賷亍 賷毓丿賱 賲鬲毓丞 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘!
賷爻鬲賰卮賮 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮乇囟賷丞 賲孬賷乇丞: 賲丕匕丕 賱賵 鬲丨賵賱 賲噩鬲賲毓 賲丕 -賮噩兀丞- 廿賱賶 賲噩賲賵毓丞 賲賳 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳責 賰賷賮 爻賷鬲毓丕賲賱 賵賷毓丕賲賱 兀賮乇丕丿 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 亘毓囟賴賲 丕賱亘毓囟責 兀賷 鬲睾賷賷乇 爻賷氐賷亘 亘賳賷丞 賲噩鬲賲毓 兀賮乇丕丿賴 賲賳 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳責 賴賱 爻賷丨賰賲 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱賲胤丕賮 賲賳 亘賷丿賴 丕賱賯賵丞 賵丕賱爻賱丕丨責 賴賱 爻賷爻賵丿 "賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱睾丕亘丞" 丕賱匕賷 鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴 鬲賵賲丕爻 賴賵亘夭貙 丕賱賮賷賱爻賵賮 丕賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷 丕賱匕賷 兀毓賱賳 毓賳 "匕卅亘賷丞 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳" 丨賷賳賲丕 兀胤賱賯 毓亘丕乇鬲賴 丕賱卮賴賷乇丞貙 "賱賯丿 兀氐亘丨 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 匕卅亘丕賸 毓賱賶 兀禺賷賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳"!
賴賳丕賱賰 卮賷卅丕賳 丌禺乇丕賳貙 亘毓賷丿賸丕 毓賳 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞 賵亘毓賷丿賸丕 毓賳 乇賲夭賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵丨亘賰鬲賴丕 丕賱鬲賷 兀卮亘毓賴丕 丕賱賯乇丕亍/丕賱賳賯丕丿 亘丨孬賸丕貙 卮丿丕 丕賳鬲亘丕賴賷. 兀丨丿賴賲丕 兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞!
爻賷賱丕丨馗 賲賳 賷賯乇兀 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賷爻鬲禺丿賲 丕賱賮賵丕氐賱 (貙) 賵丕賱賳賯丕胤 (.) 賮賯胤 賮賷 賱賲賱賲丞 丨賵丕乇丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞. 賮賱丕 賵噩賵丿 賱賱賮賵丕氐賱 丕賱賲賳賯賵胤丞 (貨) 賵賱丕 賵噩賵丿 賱賱兀賯賵丕爻 ( ) 兀賵 丕賱卮乇胤丕鬲 (-) 兀賵 丕賱賳賯丕胤 丕賱乇兀爻賷丞 (:) 兀賵 丨鬲賶 毓賱丕賲丕鬲 丕賱廿賯鬲亘丕爻 (") 兀賷 兀賳賴 -賵亘賲毓賳賶 丌禺乇- 賷毓賲賱 毓賱賶 亘賳丕亍 爻乇丿 睾丕乇賯 賮賷 丨丕賱丞 賲賳 丕賱賮賵囟賶 丕賱賲鬲乇丕賲賷丞 丕賱丕胤乇丕賮.
爻賷氐丕亘 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘賰孬賷乇賺 賲賳 丕賱丕乇鬲賰丕亘貙 賵爻賷爻鬲睾乇賯賴 亘毓囟 丕賱賵賯鬲 賱賷毓鬲丕丿 毓賱賶 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞.
丕賱兀賲乇 丕賱丌禺乇 丕賱匕賷 卮丿 丕賳鬲亘丕賴賷貙 賵兀乇亘賰賳賷 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賯丿乇 丕賱匕賷 兀乇亘賰鬲賳賷 賮賷賴 丕賱丨賵丕乇丕鬲貙 毓丿賲 鬲爻賲賷丞 兀賷 賲賳 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賵丕賱廿賰鬲賮丕亍 亘丕賱廿卮丕乇丞 廿賱賷賴賲 賴賰匕丕: 丕賱兀毓賲賶 丕賱兀賵賱貙 夭賵噩丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘貙 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍!
賴匕賴 丕賱賲賳丕賵乇丞 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘賷丞 (廿賳 氐丨 丕賱賵氐賮) 賴丿賮賴丕 丕賱鬲卮賵賷卮 毓賱賶 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘噩毓賱 毓賲賱賷丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 兀賰孬乇 氐毓賵亘丞. 賰賲 賲乇丞 鬲賵賯賮鬲 -毓夭賷夭賷 丕賱賯丕乇卅- 兀孬賳丕亍 賯乇丕亍丞 兀丨丿 丕賱丨賵丕乇丕鬲 賵鬲爻丕亍賱鬲 "賲賳 賯丕賱 賴匕丕責" 賴賱 賴賷 夭賵噩丞 丕賱胤亘賷亘 兀賲 丕賱乇噩賱 匕賵 丕賱毓氐丕亘丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 兀賲 兀賲 !!
賵賴賷 亘丕賱賲賳丕爻亘丞 賳賮爻 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 鬲鬲賮丕毓賱 亘賴丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱毓賲賷丕亍 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
亘丕禺鬲氐丕乇 .. 廿賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 賷乇賷丿 兀賳 賷噩毓賱 丕賱賯丕乇卅 賷卮毓乇 亘兀賳賴 兀毓賲賶 噩夭卅賷丕.
賱賴匕丕 丕賱爻亘亘 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀賴賲 賲賳 賲卮丕賴丿丞 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賱賲爻鬲賵丨賶 賲賳賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 兀賳 爻丕乇丕賲丕睾賵 兀卮丕丿 亘賴貙 賵賯丕賱 亘毓丿 賲卮丕賴丿鬲賴 : 兀卮毓乇 亘爻毓丕丿丞 賵兀賳丕 兀卮丕賴丿 丕賱賮賷賱賲 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱爻毓丕丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 卮毓乇鬲 亘賴丕 亘毓丿 兀賳 兀賳賴賷鬲 賰鬲丕亘丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞!!
September 17, 2022
廿賳 噩丕賱賰 丕賱兀毓賲賶 .. 禺丿 毓卮丕賴 .. 賲卮 賴鬲賰賵賳 兀丨賳 賲賳 丕賱賱賷 毓賲丕賴.賲孬賱 卮乇賯賷
賴匕丕 賴賵 賲丕 丨丿孬 丨乇賮賷丕 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞.
賵 賴賰匕丕 賴賲 丕賱兀賵睾丕丿 賮賷 賰賱 夭賲丕賳 賵 賲賰丕賳. 賮賴賵 爻賷兀禺匕 毓卮丕亍 丕賱兀毓賲賶 賵 丕賱兀毓賲賶 賱賳 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 卮賷卅丕 丨賷丕賱 匕賱賰 賵 賷亘乇乇 丕賱賳匕賱 賱賳賮爻賴 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲氐乇賮 亘兀賳 丕賱賱賴 禺賱賯賴 兀毓賲賶 賵 賯爻賶 毓賱賷賴 賵 賱賳 兀賰賵賳 毓胤賵賮丕 毓賱賷賴 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 禺丕賱賯賴.
亘賲孬賱 匕賱賰 丕賱賲賳賴噩 丕賱賲毓賵噩 爻丕乇鬲 爻賱賵賰賷丕鬲 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 胤賵丕賱 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 廿賱丕 賯賱丞 賯賱賷賱丞 賲賳賴賲 乇兀鬲 鈥� 賵 賷丕 賱賴丕 賲賳 賰賱賲丞 賮賷 睾賷乇 爻賷丕賯賴丕 鈥� 兀賳賴 賷噩亘 毓賱賷賴賲 丕賱丨賮丕馗 毓賱賶 兀禺賱丕賯賴賲 賮賴賲 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賮賯丿賵丕 兀毓賷賳賴賲 賱丕 丕賳爻丕賳賷鬲賴賲.
廿賳 賰賳丕 睾賷乇 賯丕丿乇賷賳 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賷卮 賰賰丕卅賳丕鬲 亘卮乇賷丞 賮丿毓賵賳丕 毓賱賶 丕賱兀賯賱 賳賮毓賱 賰賱 賲丕 亘賵爻毓賳丕 賰賷 賱丕 賳毓賷卮 賰丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 鬲賲丕賲丕.
丨賷丕丞 噩丿賷丿丞 鬲亘丿兀賴丕 賲丿賷賳丞 毓賲賷鬲 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱 賮賱丕 賲丕亍 賵 賱丕 賰賴乇亘丕亍 賵 賱丕 爻賷丕乇丕鬲 賵 賱丕 兀賲賳 賵 賱丕 兀賲丕賳. 丨鬲賶 丕賱睾匕丕亍 丕賱賲賵噩賵丿 賴賵 亘賯丕賷丕 賲丕 鬲賲 鬲氐賳賷毓賴 賵 賱丕 賷丨鬲丕噩 賱賲夭賷丿 賲賳 丕賱噩賴丿 丨鬲賶 賷賰賵賳 賯丕亘賱丕 賱賱兀賰賱.
賲賳 丕賱丌賳 賮氐丕毓丿丕 爻賵賮 賱賳 賳毓乇賮 賲賳 賳賰賵賳. 丨鬲賶 兀賳賳丕 賱賳 賳鬲匕賰乇 兀爻賲丕亍賳丕. 孬賲 賲丕 賳賮毓 丕賱兀爻賲丕亍 賱賳丕. 廿匕 廿賳 丕賱賰賱亘 賱丕 賷賲賷夭 賰賱亘丕 兀禺乇. 兀賵 賷毓乇賮 丕賱賰賱丕亘 丕賱兀禺乇賶 賲賳 丕賱兀爻賲丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 鬲胤賱賯 毓賱賷賴丕. 賮丕賱賰賱亘 賷毓乇賮 亘乇丕卅丨鬲賴 賵 亘丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 賳賮爻賴丕 賷毓乇賮 丕賱賰賱丕亘 丕賱兀禺乇賶. 賵 賳丨賳 賴賳丕 賲孬賱 爻賱丕賱丞 兀禺乇賶 賲賳 丕賱賰賱丕亘. 賷毓乇賮 兀丨丿賳丕 丕賱兀禺乇 賲賳 賳亘丕丨賴 兀賵 賰賱丕賲賴. 兀賲丕 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賱氐賮丕鬲 丕賱兀禺乇賶. 丕賱賲賱丕賲丨. 賱賵賳 丕賱兀毓賷賳 兀賵 丕賱卮毓乇. 賮賱丕 兀賴賲賷丞 賱賴丕 賵 賰兀賳賴丕 睾賷乇 賲賵噩賵丿丞.
賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 賷毓賴丿賵賳 賱賱噩賷卮 亘廿丿丕乇丞 丕賱兀夭賲丞 賮賷賱噩兀 丕賱噩賷卮 賱毓夭賱 丕賱賲氐丕亘賷賳 亘丕賱毓賲賶 毓夭賱丕 氐丨賷丕 賮賷 賲毓爻賰乇丕鬲 賲睾賱賯丞 孬賲 賷爻鬲賮丨賱 丕賱兀賲乇 賮賷氐丕亘 丕賱丨乇丕爻 兀賷囟丕 孬賲 賷鬲賵睾賱 丕賱丿丕亍 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賮賱丕 賷亘賯賶 賵 賱丕 賷匕乇.
賷賰賮賷 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賱噩賳賵丿 兀賳 賷鬲賱賯賵丕 兀賲乇丕 賰賷 賷賯鬲賱賵丕 賵 丌禺乇 賰賷 賷賲賵鬲賵丕.賵 賷賯丕賱 賮賷 丕賱鬲乇丕孬 丕賱卮毓亘賷
兀賳丕 毓亘丿 丕賱賲兀賲賵乇賷丕 賱賴丕 賲賳 噩賲賱丞 睾乇賷亘丞. 廿賳賴 賱賷爻 丨鬲賶 毓亘丿 丕賱丌賲乇 亘賱 賴賵 毓亘丿 丕賱賲兀賲賵乇. 賮丕賱賲兀賲賵乇 兀賷囟丕 賲兀賲賵乇 賵 賯丿 丕鬲禺匕 丕爻賲賴 賵 爻賲毓鬲賴 賵 氐賷鬲賴 賵 氐賵賱噩丕賳 賲賱賰賴 賲賳 鬲賳賮賷匕賴 賱賱兀賵丕賲乇 賱丕 賲賳 廿氐丿丕乇賴丕.
賷鬲丨賰賲 丕賱禺賵賮 賮賷 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賵 賷爻賵丿 賲賳胤賯 丕賱胤丕毓丞 賵 賱賵 毓賱賶 丨爻丕亘 丕賱賲賳胤賯 賵 賷馗賳 丕賱賳丕爻 兀賳 丕賱馗賱賲 賲賯丿賲丞 賱賱鬲賳賲賷丞 賵 丕賱乇禺丕亍 賱丕 賰賲丕 賯丕賱 丕亘賳 禺賱丿賵賳 丕賱馗賱賲 賲丐匕賳 亘禺乇丕亘 丕賱毓賲乇丕賳
賯丕賱鬲 丕賱賮鬲丕丞 匕丕鬲 丕賱賳馗丕乇丞 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍: 賯丿 賷爻亘亘 丕賱禺賵賮 丕賱毓賲賶.
賱賲 兀爻賲毓 丕亘賱睾 賲賳 賴匕賴 丕賱毓亘丕乇丞. 賵 賱丕 賵噩賵丿 賱毓亘丕乇丞 兀亘賱睾 賲賳賴丕. 賰賳丕 毓賲賷丕賳丕 鬲賲丕賲丕. 賵 賮賷 丕賱賱丨馗丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓賲賷賳丕 賮賷賴丕 兀毓賲丕賳丕 丕賱禺賵賮. 賵 爻賵賮 賷亘賯賷賳丕 丕賱禺賵賮 毓賲賷丕賳丕.
賯賱 賱兀毓賲賶 兀賳鬲 丨乇. 丕賮鬲丨 賱賴 丕賱亘丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳 賷賮氐賱賴 毓賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲. 賵 賯賱 賱賴 孬丕賳賷丞: 丕匕賴亘 賮兀賳鬲 丨乇. 賱賳 賷匕賴亘. 爻賷亘賯賶 賮賷 賲賰丕賳賴 賵爻胤 丕賱胤乇賷賯. 賴賵 賵 丕賱丌禺乇賵賳. 賲乇毓賵亘賷賳 賱丕 賷毓乇賮賵賳 兀賷賳 賷匕賴亘賵賳. 賮賷 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賱丕 賲噩丕賱 賱賱賲賯丕乇賳丞 亘賷賳 丕賱毓賷卮 賮賷 賲鬲丕賴丞 毓賯賱丕賳賷丞 賵 賴匕賴 毓賱賶 賵噩賴 丕賱丿賯丞 賴賷 賲卮賮賶 丕賱賲噩丕賳賷賳. 賵 亘賷賳 丕賱廿賯丿丕賲 毓賱賶 賲睾丕賲乇丞 亘賱丕 賷丿 賲乇卮丿丞. 兀賵 賰賱亘 亘乇賽爻賳. 賮賷 賲鬲丕賴丞 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 丨賷孬 賱賳 鬲賮賷丿 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 卮賷卅丕 賱兀賳賴丕 賱賳 鬲爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丕爻鬲丨囟丕乇 氐賵乇 丕賱兀賲賰賳丞. 賵 鬲毓噩夭 毓賳 丕爻鬲丨囟丕乇 丕賱胤乇賯丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賵氐賱 廿賱賷賴丕. 賰丕賳 亘賵爻毓 丕賱毓賲賷丕賳 兀賳 賷卮毓乇賵丕 賵 賴賲 賵丕賯賮賵賳 兀賲丕賲 丕賱賲亘賳賶 丕賱賲卮鬲毓賱 亘賰賱賸賷鬲賴. 亘爻賮毓 賴亘丕鬲 丕賱丨乇丕乇丞 丕賱丨賷丞 毓賱賶 賵噩賵賴賴賲. 賵 鬲賯亘賱賵賴丕 賰兀賳賴丕 卮賷亍 賲丕 賷丐賲賳 賱賴賲 丕賱丨賲丕賷丞. 鬲賲丕賲丕 賰賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱噩丿乇丕賳 賲賳 賯亘賱賴丕. 爻噩賳丕 賵 賲賱丕匕 賮賷 丌賳 賲毓丕. 鬲噩賲毓賵丕 亘毓囟賴賲 廿賱賶 亘毓囟. 鬲乇丕氐賵丕 賰賯胤賷毓. 賱丕 賷乇賷丿 兀賷 賲賳賴賲 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 丕賱禺乇賵賮 丕賱囟丕賱. 賱兀賳賴賲 賷丿乇賰賵賳 兀賱丕 乇丕毓賷 賴賳丕賰 賱賷亘丨孬 毓賳賴賲.
丕賱賲毓噩夭丞 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 鬲丨賯賷賯賴丕 丕賳 賳爻鬲賲乇 賮賷 丕賱毓賷卮.
兀賯賵賱 賱賰 賲賯丿賲丕 兀賳鬲 賱丕 鬲毓乇賮 賲丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓賴 丕賱賳丕爻. 毓賱賷賰 亘丕賱丕賳鬲馗丕乇. 兀賳 鬲賲賳丨賴賲 賵賯鬲丕. 賮丕賱夭賲賳 賴賵 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賰賲. 丕賱夭賲賳 賴賵 丕賱賲賯丕賲乇 丕賱丌禺乇 賯亘丕賱鬲賳丕 毓賱賶 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丌禺乇 賲賳 丕賱胤丕賵賱丞. 賵 賮賷 賷丿賴 賰賱 兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱賱毓亘. 賵 毓賱賷賳丕 賳丨賳 兀賳 賳丨夭乇 丕賱兀賵乇丕賯 丕賱乇丕亘丨丞 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞. 丨賷賵丕鬲賳丕.
February 10, 2013
It is easier for me to lambaste a book when it is a translation; after all, maybe it is not the author who should be held accountable for the text鈥檚 flaws. Whether or not the translator is culpable, Blindness indeed has many flaws.
First: In order, one must assume, to make the reader鈥檚 experience as tantamount to the characters鈥� as possible, there are no names and no quotation marks to indicate speech. That鈥檚 fine enough, but he chooses not to use periods either, that makes almost every sentence, whether it is conversation or not, a long-ass run-on, there is no reason for it, it is not like the final chapter of Ulysses, the whole thing just pissed me off and made me hate reading, good books don鈥檛 do that.
Second: The narration, or rather the narrator, is not consistent. It/he/she/they shift from third person omniscient, to third person limited, to first person seemingly present in the scene, to first person removed and either omniscient or limited, to first person plural all of the above. This is not like Mitchell鈥檚 books in which different characters narrate different sections鈥攖his is just one voice that paradoxically and capriciously changes. Oh, and that has reminded me that the tense suddenly shifts from past to present then shifted back to past then shifts again all arbitrarily. Pathetic!
Third: Unfortunately, the only constant that the narrative voice does have is a meaninglessly verbose style. While I laud Nabokov for one sentence that appears to be a paragraph, that is only because that sentence is composed of so many beautiful parts (all punctuated correctly, no less) that work together to create an even more beautiful image. This writing is more akin to the wandering, rambling speech of Grandpa Simpson which, while hilarious on The Simpsons, has no place within this story.
Finally: The countless instances in which suspension of disbelief is just impossible. A whole city/country/world suddenly goes blind? Okay, sounds like an interesting premise鈥擨鈥檒l buy it. How the author has these newly-blinded people speak and act, well that鈥檚 just too much. My main gripe is actually with the primary protagonist, the Doctor鈥檚 wife, the only one who does not lose her eyesight. Her utter lack of action and sense of responsibility for the majority of the book almost made me quit reading. I would suggest that one of the themes evident is how readily civilization/morals/mores/humanity/meaning can deteriorate when something changes (like, for instance, being stranded on a desert island with only your schoolmates or Camus' The Plague). My contention is the seeing-woman, who is clearly supposed to be portrayed as the hero, is responsible for many of the injustices and just downright abominable acts that happen. Does she cause them? No. But does she prevent them from happening? No. After all, there鈥檚 some saying like 鈥渨ith great eyesight comes great responsibility鈥� or something like that, but for all the trite aphorisms she spouts she must not have heard that one. Hers read like lines in a 鈥淏鈥� (at best) grade movie: 鈥淲e are already half dead, said the doctor, We are still half alive too, answered his wife,鈥� 鈥淭he woman I was then wouldn鈥檛 have said it, I agree, the person who said it was the woman I am today, Let鈥檚 see then what the woman you will be tomorrow will have to say鈥︹€� and 鈥渋t is his duty to follow her, one never knows when one might have to dry more tears.鈥� All stagy, affected drivel. Finally, hey woman who can see: why not grab a damn flashlight when going down a dark hall or worrying about night setting in? Yes, silly things like that bothered me. They are the things I can overlook in that 鈥淏鈥� action movie, but not in a good book.
First: In order, one must assume, to make the reader鈥檚 experience as tantamount to the characters鈥� as possible, there are no names and no quotation marks to indicate speech. That鈥檚 fine enough, but he chooses not to use periods either, that makes almost every sentence, whether it is conversation or not, a long-ass run-on, there is no reason for it, it is not like the final chapter of Ulysses, the whole thing just pissed me off and made me hate reading, good books don鈥檛 do that.
Second: The narration, or rather the narrator, is not consistent. It/he/she/they shift from third person omniscient, to third person limited, to first person seemingly present in the scene, to first person removed and either omniscient or limited, to first person plural all of the above. This is not like Mitchell鈥檚 books in which different characters narrate different sections鈥攖his is just one voice that paradoxically and capriciously changes. Oh, and that has reminded me that the tense suddenly shifts from past to present then shifted back to past then shifts again all arbitrarily. Pathetic!
Third: Unfortunately, the only constant that the narrative voice does have is a meaninglessly verbose style. While I laud Nabokov for one sentence that appears to be a paragraph, that is only because that sentence is composed of so many beautiful parts (all punctuated correctly, no less) that work together to create an even more beautiful image. This writing is more akin to the wandering, rambling speech of Grandpa Simpson which, while hilarious on The Simpsons, has no place within this story.
Finally: The countless instances in which suspension of disbelief is just impossible. A whole city/country/world suddenly goes blind? Okay, sounds like an interesting premise鈥擨鈥檒l buy it. How the author has these newly-blinded people speak and act, well that鈥檚 just too much. My main gripe is actually with the primary protagonist, the Doctor鈥檚 wife, the only one who does not lose her eyesight. Her utter lack of action and sense of responsibility for the majority of the book almost made me quit reading. I would suggest that one of the themes evident is how readily civilization/morals/mores/humanity/meaning can deteriorate when something changes (like, for instance, being stranded on a desert island with only your schoolmates or Camus' The Plague). My contention is the seeing-woman, who is clearly supposed to be portrayed as the hero, is responsible for many of the injustices and just downright abominable acts that happen. Does she cause them? No. But does she prevent them from happening? No. After all, there鈥檚 some saying like 鈥渨ith great eyesight comes great responsibility鈥� or something like that, but for all the trite aphorisms she spouts she must not have heard that one. Hers read like lines in a 鈥淏鈥� (at best) grade movie: 鈥淲e are already half dead, said the doctor, We are still half alive too, answered his wife,鈥� 鈥淭he woman I was then wouldn鈥檛 have said it, I agree, the person who said it was the woman I am today, Let鈥檚 see then what the woman you will be tomorrow will have to say鈥︹€� and 鈥渋t is his duty to follow her, one never knows when one might have to dry more tears.鈥� All stagy, affected drivel. Finally, hey woman who can see: why not grab a damn flashlight when going down a dark hall or worrying about night setting in? Yes, silly things like that bothered me. They are the things I can overlook in that 鈥淏鈥� action movie, but not in a good book.
December 24, 2015
Update. I said I would never read another Saramago because of his writing style. I did though. and . Both brilliant. But I listened to them. I wouldn't have appreciated them as much if I'd had to struggle through Saramago's idiosyncratic writing style.
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In H.G. Wells 'In the Country of the Blind' the only person who can see suffers great discrimination and has to agree to have his eyes removed and become as blind as the rest of the people who over the generations have adapted to life without vision. In Saramago's book, the only person who can see is the heroine of the book. This is a device for telling the story which is the collapse of the social order as with just about all dystopian stories. One wonders if, given time, those blinded by the disease wouldn't adapt as in Country of the Blind? And if they did so, then resent those who could see and instead of relying on the few sighted people for help despise them for the obvious power they have. Perhaps even suspect them of exploiting that power for their gain and the blinds' detriment.
I read the book and watched the film. I didn't find Saramago's style easy to read. Extremely long sentences, endless paragraphs and an idiosyncratic grammar made me have to concentrate on the reading more than the subject matter. It was worth it, but written in standard English I think I would have enjoyed it more. The film was a good, standard, Hollywood film meaning it appeals to the masses, has pretty people and no depth and has been designed to make money. I quite enjoyed it, but am glad I read the book first.
Although I found this book interesting, I didn't find it the cutting edge work of genius that I had read about. I don't think I would ever read another Saramago because life is too short to struggle through such a difficult writing style. The book took me about three times as long as if it had been written in a more usual manner. It seems to me to be an ego thing to write in a way that is completely different to everyone else. The reason there is a standard way of writing is that it is easy for us all to understand rather than having to adapt to anyone's idiosyncratic idea of spelling and grammar.
Writing is communication and understanding is key. This applies just as much to the reviewers on GR who don't ever use paragraphs and or/capital letters, but it's one thing reading a review and another a whole book - I'm prepared to go along with someone's style if they write good reviews , but a whole book.... no, not again.
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In H.G. Wells 'In the Country of the Blind' the only person who can see suffers great discrimination and has to agree to have his eyes removed and become as blind as the rest of the people who over the generations have adapted to life without vision. In Saramago's book, the only person who can see is the heroine of the book. This is a device for telling the story which is the collapse of the social order as with just about all dystopian stories. One wonders if, given time, those blinded by the disease wouldn't adapt as in Country of the Blind? And if they did so, then resent those who could see and instead of relying on the few sighted people for help despise them for the obvious power they have. Perhaps even suspect them of exploiting that power for their gain and the blinds' detriment.
I read the book and watched the film. I didn't find Saramago's style easy to read. Extremely long sentences, endless paragraphs and an idiosyncratic grammar made me have to concentrate on the reading more than the subject matter. It was worth it, but written in standard English I think I would have enjoyed it more. The film was a good, standard, Hollywood film meaning it appeals to the masses, has pretty people and no depth and has been designed to make money. I quite enjoyed it, but am glad I read the book first.
Although I found this book interesting, I didn't find it the cutting edge work of genius that I had read about. I don't think I would ever read another Saramago because life is too short to struggle through such a difficult writing style. The book took me about three times as long as if it had been written in a more usual manner. It seems to me to be an ego thing to write in a way that is completely different to everyone else. The reason there is a standard way of writing is that it is easy for us all to understand rather than having to adapt to anyone's idiosyncratic idea of spelling and grammar.
Writing is communication and understanding is key. This applies just as much to the reviewers on GR who don't ever use paragraphs and or/capital letters, but it's one thing reading a review and another a whole book - I'm prepared to go along with someone's style if they write good reviews , but a whole book.... no, not again.
May 29, 2017
鈥淚 don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.鈥�鈥檚 can be viewed as an allegory for a world where we see but in fact neglect what is around us. It is a human condition, unquestionable a disease that in contemporary time has only agravated.
"..blindness is also this, to live in a world where all hope is gone."Blindness is more than a dystopian novel, it is a philosophical work that makes us wonder about our way of living. Moreover, it brings forth the horrifying truth of how the loss of only one sense can almost instantly dismantle our society, our civilization crumbles to nothing. People are reduced to living in unimaginable filth and rummaging for food and water like animals.
"We're going back to being primitive hordes, said the old man with the black eyepatch, with the difference that we are not a few thousand men and women in an immense, unspoiled nature, but thousands of millions in an uprooted, exhausted world, And blind, ..."So, it is all about being human, with its own fundamental virtues and vices. In a world without vision only our voices remain. A revolution, you could say: people are no longer identified by their appearances, now worthless. Outward values are replaces by what kind of person each one is. Social statuses as we knew them are no more. And in a new disorganized world:
"There must be a government, said the first blind man, I'm not so sure, but if there is, it will be a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organize nothingness. Then there is no future..."Saramago鈥檚 work reminded me of 鈥檚 , both are about the crumbling of our civilization as we know it. Blindness is a masterpiece and an important reminder for us to be appreciative of several things that we take for granted, to look around and really see. Without an honest and accurate vision our very existence can disintegrate.
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March 22, 2020
We don't know what year it is, we don't know what city it is, all we know is that one minute a person can see, the next minute they can't. It's a white blindness that obliterates all vision immediately and is assumed to be highly contagious.
An early band of affected citizens is sent to a mental ward, in the hopes of containing this sudden epidemic of blindness. Only one among them can see, a woman as unnamed as anyone else in the story, but we come to know her as 鈥渢he doctor's wife.鈥�
And, since some 14,000 reviews already exist on 欧宝娱乐 for this disturbing classic, I'm not going to summarize the plot, I'm not going to look up literary criticism and spit it out. . .
I'm going to write about my new favorite character: the doctor's wife.
The doctor's wife is an educated woman in her late 40s; a childless woman who's married to an ophthalmologist and seems to be both his intellectual and emotional equal. They're a 鈥減ower couple,鈥� so to speak, the types of pillars of society that have the mayor over for dinner.
This woman is devoted to her husband, so much so, she feigns blindness to be transported to the 鈥渉olding tank鈥� of the asylum while all others around her are actually afflicted with the condition.
This woman becomes the 鈥渆yes鈥� for her husband and the band of people placed in her ward, and she simultaneously becomes the 鈥渆yes鈥� for the reader. We see everything through her, and we quickly see her conundrum as well. If she reveals her advantage, she may be forced to abandon her blind husband and she may be misused for ill gain. If she conceals her advantage, she can not communicate to others the bad shit that's taking place all around them.
And by 鈥渂ad shit,鈥� I mean bad shit. I was visibly shaking and unable to sleep after arriving at page 163. It's a scene I'd like to rub right out of my mind, perhaps with sandpaper?
You see. . . it turns out, people kinda suck. They don't want to properly ration the food or be fair. They don't want to share their blankets or their hairbrushes. And, once they've been relegated to living like animals, they want to act like animals, too.
A particularly bad band of men emerges, thieves and criminals who were probably bad before they were caged like animals. Now they want to take and break everything in the asylum, including the women.
The doctor's wife sees everything, and she is in the best and the worst position of all. She sees what needs to be done, but she must do it alone, and do it while the men sell-out her and every other woman in their ward (MEN OF WARD ONE鈥擸OU SONS OF WHORES, I WILL NEVER, EVER FORGIVE YOU).
As the devil himself paws at the doctor's wife with his cloven hooves, wanting to do great harm to her, he concludes, 鈥淭his one is on the mature side, but could turn out to be quite a woman.鈥�
Truer words were never spoken, Motherfucker.
From that point in the story, I was so focused on revenge, I became the goddamned Count of Monte Cristo. I couldn't be with my family at dinner without discussing the pitfalls of the white blindness, I couldn't stop pestering my buddy Pedro, who got me into this mess in the first place, and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in a week.
I wanted to reach out to the doctor's wife, tell her I was here for her. I could not believe she was tasked with being the only one who could SEE the problem, and I could not believe how much had been laid at one woman's excrement-covered feet. I wasn't surprised when she privately wished for the blindness to strike her, so she wouldn't be asked to show up and save the world.
The doctor's wife reminded me of so many women I have known who have been abandoned by their partners. So many women who have had to shoulder up and do the job of both woman and man, both mother and father.
For anyone who has ever had the revelation at the end of the day that this world is full of too many cowards. . . I offer up to you: the doctor's wife.
I prayed that I should never be assaulted, for I knew I would strike back, even though I would have to pay for it with life itself. --Gerda Weissmann Klein
An early band of affected citizens is sent to a mental ward, in the hopes of containing this sudden epidemic of blindness. Only one among them can see, a woman as unnamed as anyone else in the story, but we come to know her as 鈥渢he doctor's wife.鈥�
And, since some 14,000 reviews already exist on 欧宝娱乐 for this disturbing classic, I'm not going to summarize the plot, I'm not going to look up literary criticism and spit it out. . .
I'm going to write about my new favorite character: the doctor's wife.
The doctor's wife is an educated woman in her late 40s; a childless woman who's married to an ophthalmologist and seems to be both his intellectual and emotional equal. They're a 鈥減ower couple,鈥� so to speak, the types of pillars of society that have the mayor over for dinner.
This woman is devoted to her husband, so much so, she feigns blindness to be transported to the 鈥渉olding tank鈥� of the asylum while all others around her are actually afflicted with the condition.
This woman becomes the 鈥渆yes鈥� for her husband and the band of people placed in her ward, and she simultaneously becomes the 鈥渆yes鈥� for the reader. We see everything through her, and we quickly see her conundrum as well. If she reveals her advantage, she may be forced to abandon her blind husband and she may be misused for ill gain. If she conceals her advantage, she can not communicate to others the bad shit that's taking place all around them.
And by 鈥渂ad shit,鈥� I mean bad shit. I was visibly shaking and unable to sleep after arriving at page 163. It's a scene I'd like to rub right out of my mind, perhaps with sandpaper?
You see. . . it turns out, people kinda suck. They don't want to properly ration the food or be fair. They don't want to share their blankets or their hairbrushes. And, once they've been relegated to living like animals, they want to act like animals, too.
A particularly bad band of men emerges, thieves and criminals who were probably bad before they were caged like animals. Now they want to take and break everything in the asylum, including the women.
The doctor's wife sees everything, and she is in the best and the worst position of all. She sees what needs to be done, but she must do it alone, and do it while the men sell-out her and every other woman in their ward (MEN OF WARD ONE鈥擸OU SONS OF WHORES, I WILL NEVER, EVER FORGIVE YOU).
As the devil himself paws at the doctor's wife with his cloven hooves, wanting to do great harm to her, he concludes, 鈥淭his one is on the mature side, but could turn out to be quite a woman.鈥�
Truer words were never spoken, Motherfucker.
From that point in the story, I was so focused on revenge, I became the goddamned Count of Monte Cristo. I couldn't be with my family at dinner without discussing the pitfalls of the white blindness, I couldn't stop pestering my buddy Pedro, who got me into this mess in the first place, and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in a week.
I wanted to reach out to the doctor's wife, tell her I was here for her. I could not believe she was tasked with being the only one who could SEE the problem, and I could not believe how much had been laid at one woman's excrement-covered feet. I wasn't surprised when she privately wished for the blindness to strike her, so she wouldn't be asked to show up and save the world.
The doctor's wife reminded me of so many women I have known who have been abandoned by their partners. So many women who have had to shoulder up and do the job of both woman and man, both mother and father.
For anyone who has ever had the revelation at the end of the day that this world is full of too many cowards. . . I offer up to you: the doctor's wife.
I prayed that I should never be assaulted, for I knew I would strike back, even though I would have to pay for it with life itself. --Gerda Weissmann Klein
November 3, 2024
Blindness in this admirable novel is both physically and mentally accurate (polyvalent) in describing the book, eyes may not see, yet the soul remains empty of emotion as people stumble around in the forever darkness. A superb writer can give light to the land of those who otherwise remain in shadow, still hope for the future will linger...In an unstated nation's large city like any other day turns extraordinary, as the public abruptly loses sight ...one by one for no explainable reason. Naturally the frightened, helpless government begins to place these unfortunates in a ...mental hospital ...but a trickle becomes a torrent and supplies scarce and soldiers trigger -happy not desiring to be victims too. No surprise the natives become restless as they say. The inmates inside have the good and bad like any other institution you randomly pick out of a hat, and the evil soon raises its nefarious head...slowly at first nevertheless the vile spreads as the violence grows intensively. Bullets, blood and fire, the harrowing walks by the escaping group to find food, shelter and loved ones in the immense metropolis while dodging corpses and the stench will not be easily disregarded. The dead will stay dead and the nameless characters with plain monikers like the doctor's wife, the girl with dark glasses, the old man with the black eye patch and the doctor who (not so funny ) is a ... ophthalmologist...let's not forget the dog of tears (my favorite) etc...Of course a parable of human weakness and the lack of empathy for the downtrodden, those not seen but are everywhere. This novel clinched the Nobel Prize for Literature for the author Jose Saramago a well deserved honor, with numerous commas, his lack of periods and extremely long sentences doesn't distract his value as a brilliant writer. The proof is in the pudding and the cliche is fact for any that pour over these printed pages...
November 12, 2017
Imagine the most ordinary situation in the world.
People waiting at a traffic light. All of us can see that before our inner eyes, relive thousands of similar situations we have experienced ourselves, without ever giving them a moment of consideration. Thus starts Saramago's Blindness. But there is a disruption. One car is not following the rules all take for granted. The car doesn't move when the light switches to green. People are annoyed, frustrated, disturbed in their routines, but not worried:
"Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, not one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind."
I AM BLIND. This is the beginning of what my son labelled the scariest book he ever read, and yet such a perfectly brilliant masterpiece. Similar to Camus' and Ionesco's in more than one respect, it takes the reader to the darkest abyss of despair and filth and pain.
Deprived of the sense of seeing, the characters have to cope with brutal bestiality and suffering to survive in a world limited by the loss of vision - an accurate symbol for overview, control, and objective judgement of reality. If Camus' characters are invaded by plague-stricken rats and dying of the disease, Saramago's society breaks down even more completely when the epidemic blindness strikes. Humans turn into beasts, comparable to the rhinofication in Ionesco's allegory on community collapse.
One character, a Cassandra of sorts, is excluded from the plague, and she guides the plot with her seeing eyes. What she sees is unbearable, even to the reader. Rarely have I felt more shaken than while reading the scene with the blind thugs raping hungry women. The seeing woman steps in and uses her power to break off the horror show, but it will leave a scar on my reading inner eye forever. Bizarrely, that means a scene I never actually saw is engraved on my visual memory.
When reflecting on why the women didn't fight back from the beginning when the opportunist gangsters started to take control of the blind community, they give the same reasons as so many women facing sexual abuse:
"We failed to put up resistance as we should have done when they first came making demands, Of course, we were afraid and fear isn't always a wise counsellor..."
Desperate needs, inequality of power, shameless gang mentality, helplessness in an exposed situation, loss of control, all these things play a role. And the humiliation of being exploited as an object without individual value is not diminished in blindness. Inside, we remain seeing.
An allegory of the breakdown of civilisation, Blindness is also the story of those who finally start resisting raw violence and brutal force, and of those who see through the darkness. However, even as the blind spell breaks, and people are regaining their vision, the world is changed forever. Blindness has become a real threat, a terrifying possibility lurking underneath everyday worries. If it can happen once, it can happen again. And who knows when? You may be waiting at a traffic light, and all of a sudden, life goes white...
The one person who remains seeing through the whole catastrophe realises in the end that people might not actually have been literally blind at all:
"Blind people who can see, but do not see."
That is a tragic reflection on humankind. We turn to mass blindness in periods, not because we are physically unable to see, but because we DO not see. We can see, we have the tools for seeing, but we do not use them - not as long as the cars keep moving when the traffic lights turn green. We only start to see that we do not see when we turn blind and there is a disruption in our unseeing complacency.
We sometimes need an epidemic blindness to wake up and see what happens underneath the polished surface of our civilisation.
Let's use our eyes, literally and figuratively, to see what we need to see. Let's not turn a blind eye to the world's troubles! We know we can easily fall into the barbaric state of blindness. It has happened before.
Let's not forget blindness in order to keep our vision clear.
People waiting at a traffic light. All of us can see that before our inner eyes, relive thousands of similar situations we have experienced ourselves, without ever giving them a moment of consideration. Thus starts Saramago's Blindness. But there is a disruption. One car is not following the rules all take for granted. The car doesn't move when the light switches to green. People are annoyed, frustrated, disturbed in their routines, but not worried:
"Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, not one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind."
I AM BLIND. This is the beginning of what my son labelled the scariest book he ever read, and yet such a perfectly brilliant masterpiece. Similar to Camus' and Ionesco's in more than one respect, it takes the reader to the darkest abyss of despair and filth and pain.
Deprived of the sense of seeing, the characters have to cope with brutal bestiality and suffering to survive in a world limited by the loss of vision - an accurate symbol for overview, control, and objective judgement of reality. If Camus' characters are invaded by plague-stricken rats and dying of the disease, Saramago's society breaks down even more completely when the epidemic blindness strikes. Humans turn into beasts, comparable to the rhinofication in Ionesco's allegory on community collapse.
One character, a Cassandra of sorts, is excluded from the plague, and she guides the plot with her seeing eyes. What she sees is unbearable, even to the reader. Rarely have I felt more shaken than while reading the scene with the blind thugs raping hungry women. The seeing woman steps in and uses her power to break off the horror show, but it will leave a scar on my reading inner eye forever. Bizarrely, that means a scene I never actually saw is engraved on my visual memory.
When reflecting on why the women didn't fight back from the beginning when the opportunist gangsters started to take control of the blind community, they give the same reasons as so many women facing sexual abuse:
"We failed to put up resistance as we should have done when they first came making demands, Of course, we were afraid and fear isn't always a wise counsellor..."
Desperate needs, inequality of power, shameless gang mentality, helplessness in an exposed situation, loss of control, all these things play a role. And the humiliation of being exploited as an object without individual value is not diminished in blindness. Inside, we remain seeing.
An allegory of the breakdown of civilisation, Blindness is also the story of those who finally start resisting raw violence and brutal force, and of those who see through the darkness. However, even as the blind spell breaks, and people are regaining their vision, the world is changed forever. Blindness has become a real threat, a terrifying possibility lurking underneath everyday worries. If it can happen once, it can happen again. And who knows when? You may be waiting at a traffic light, and all of a sudden, life goes white...
The one person who remains seeing through the whole catastrophe realises in the end that people might not actually have been literally blind at all:
"Blind people who can see, but do not see."
That is a tragic reflection on humankind. We turn to mass blindness in periods, not because we are physically unable to see, but because we DO not see. We can see, we have the tools for seeing, but we do not use them - not as long as the cars keep moving when the traffic lights turn green. We only start to see that we do not see when we turn blind and there is a disruption in our unseeing complacency.
We sometimes need an epidemic blindness to wake up and see what happens underneath the polished surface of our civilisation.
Let's use our eyes, literally and figuratively, to see what we need to see. Let's not turn a blind eye to the world's troubles! We know we can easily fall into the barbaric state of blindness. It has happened before.
Let's not forget blindness in order to keep our vision clear.
July 15, 2014
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