Amazing book wrote in a very original Saramago way, a book about "seeing" versus "understanding". Did you ever imagined yourself and all people around you going blind? how life would be then? how things important today when we can "see" can become totally non important when we don't see, how people can terrorize others in any conditions , how life can be like in a horror movie when things are getting out of control. Whatever the answer is I am sure you can't imagine the world described by Saramago in this brilliant fiction book.
I do recommend this book to all of you who read Camus Plaque or Garbriel Garcia Marquez fictions and you liked them, and to all of you who want to understand why we can't see the same shade of white.
"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see"
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Hey. Thanks for the book reco. Sounds interesting. I'll add it to my monstrosity of a wishlist :)
Indeed, sometimes I wonder how our experiences would be different if we had other sense organs, or is another sense organ were more powerful than sight. Indeed several creatures exist without needing vision as we know it. An alien that we may discover or that may discover us may experience and hence perceive the universe differently from the way we do.
What if, for example, we were able to see ultra-violet and infra-red? Also, our opinion of those who don't see is based on our own experience of seeing, and what we consider it's advantages. Interesting indeed. Gotta read it :)
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