One Who Can See in the Country of the Blind
"Why did you not come when I called you?" said the blind man. "Must you be led like a child? Cannot you hear the path as you walk?"
Nunez laughed. "I can see it," he said.
"There is no such word as see," said the blind man, after a pause. "Cease this folly and follow the sound of my feet."
Nunez followed, a little annoyed.
"My time will come," he said.
"You'll learn," the blind man answered. "There is much to learn in the world."
"Has no one told you, 'In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is King?'"
"What is blind?" asked the blind man, carelessly, over his shoulder.
Four days passed and the fifth found the King of the Blind still incognito, as a clumsy and useless stranger among his subjects.
Notes:
The protagonist in HG Wells story can see, but that just means the society of blind people he encounters think him mad.
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The Country Of The Blind And Other StoriesTriples
In the Land of the Blind
One Who Can See in the Country of the Blind > Emphasis > King of DiamondsHG Wells and Marshall McLuhan have the same insight about the one-eyed man in the country of the blind: that he is a crazy person.
