The Eyes of the Blind

Walter Lanyon begins Chapter One -- "The Eyes of the Blind" -- with: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped.' Have you ever thought what it must be like to have been blind --physically speaking -- and then suddenly to have your sight restored? The wonders of a universe in which you have lived and only contacted by touching, smelling and hearing, are suddenly all transformed by sight. A whole new universe lies before you with colour, beauty, form and outline, and yet it would be the identical universe in which you had been living all the time. Everything that you were experiencing with the regained sight had always been there, but you did not see it."