Status Updates From The Mind's Eye

"Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes."

"Wandered out with Kate to the bookstore to get some large-print books--dismayed to find that almost all their large-print books are how-to books or romance novels. I could hardly find a single decent book in the entire large-print section. It is as though the visually impaired are also regarded as intellectually impaired."