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Then
he
wept
without
intention
,
for
he
was
very
weak
and
ill
now
,
and
they
took
that
as
a
favourable
sign
.
They
asked
him
if
he
still
thought
he
could
"
see
"
"
No
,
"
he
said
.
"
That
was
folly
.
The
word
means
nothing
--
less
than
nothing
!
"
They
asked
him
what
was
overhead
.
"
About
ten
times
ten
the
height
of
a
man
there
is
a
roof
above
the
world
--
of
rock
--
and
very
,
very
smooth
.
"
...
He
burst
again
into
hysterical
tears
.
"
Before
you
ask
me
any
more
,
give
me
some
food
or
I
shall
die
.
"
He
expected
dire
punishments
,
but
these
blind
people
were
capable
of
toleration
.
They
regarded
his
rebellion
as
but
one
more
proof
of
his
general
idiocy
and
inferiority
;
and
after
they
had
whipped
him
they
appointed
him
to
do
the
simplest
and
heaviest
work
they
had
for
anyone
to
do
,
and
he
,
seeing
no
other
way
of
living
,
did
submissively
what
he
was
told
.
He
was
ill
for
some
days
,
and
they
nursed
him
kindly
.
That
refined
his
submission
.
But
they
insisted
on
his
lying
in
the
dark
,
and
that
was
a
great
misery
.
And
blind
philosophers
came
and
talked
to
him
of
the
wicked
levity
of
his
mind
,
and
reproved
him
so
impressively
for
his
doubts
about
the
lid
of
rock
that
covered
their
cosmic
casserole
that
he
almost
doubted
whether
indeed
he
was
not
the
victim
of
hallucination
in
not
seeing
it
overhead
.
So
Nunez
became
a
citizen
of
the
Country
of
the
Blind
,
and
these
people
ceased
to
be
a
generalised
people
and
became
individualities
and
familiar
to
him
,
while
the
world
beyond
the
mountains
became
more
and
more
remote
and
unreal
.
There
was
Yacob
,
his
master
,
a
kindly
man
when
not
annoyed
;
there
was
Pedro
,
Yacob
's
nephew
;
and
there
was
Medina-saroti
,
who
was
the
youngest
daughter
of
Yacob
.
She
was
little
esteemed
in
the
world
of
the
blind
,
because
she
had
a
clear-cut
face
,
and
lacked
that
satisfying
,
glossy
smoothness
that
is
the
blind
man
's
ideal
of
feminine
beauty
;
but
Nunez
thought
her
beautiful
at
first
,
and
presently
the
most
beautiful
thing
in
the
whole
creation
.
Her
closed
eyelids
were
not
sunken
and
red
after
the
common
way
of
the
valley
,
but
lay
as
though
they
might
open
again
at
any
moment
;
and
she
had
long
eyelashes
,
which
were
considered
a
grave
disfigurement
.
And
her
voice
was
strong
,
and
did
not
satisfy
the
acute
hearing
of
the
valley
swains
.
So
that
she
had
no
lover
.
There
came
a
time
when
Nunez
thought
that
,
could
he
win
her
,
he
would
be
resigned
to
live
in
the
valley
for
all
the
rest
of
his
days
.
