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Others
also
said
things
about
him
that
he
heard
or
understood
imperfectly
.
"
May
I
sit
up
?
"
he
asked
,
in
a
pause
.
"
I
will
not
struggle
against
you
again
.
"
They
consulted
and
let
him
rise
.
The
voice
of
an
older
man
began
to
question
him
,
and
Nunez
found
himself
trying
to
explain
the
great
world
out
of
which
he
had
fallen
,
and
the
sky
and
mountains
and
sight
and
such-like
marvels
,
to
these
elders
who
sat
in
darkness
in
the
Country
of
the
Blind
.
And
they
would
believe
and
understand
nothing
whatever
he
told
them
,
a
thing
quite
outside
his
expectation
.
They
would
not
even
understand
many
of
his
words
.
For
fourteen
generations
these
people
had
been
blind
and
cut
off
from
all
the
seeing
world
;
the
names
for
all
the
things
of
sight
had
faded
and
changed
;
the
story
of
the
outer
world
was
faded
and
changed
to
a
child
's
story
;
and
they
had
ceased
to
concern
themselves
with
anything
beyond
the
rocky
slopes
above
their
circling
wall
.
Blind
men
of
genius
had
arisen
among
them
and
questioned
the
shreds
of
belief
and
tradition
they
had
brought
with
them
from
their
seeing
days
,
and
had
dismissed
all
these
things
as
idle
fancies
,
and
replaced
them
with
new
and
saner
explanations
.
Much
of
their
imagination
had
shrivelled
with
their
eyes
,
and
they
had
made
for
themselves
new
imaginations
with
their
ever
more
sensitive
ears
and
finger-tips
.
Slowly
Nunez
realised
this
;
that
his
expectation
of
wonder
and
reverence
at
his
origin
and
his
gifts
was
not
to
be
borne
out
;
and
after
his
poor
attempt
to
explain
sight
to
them
had
been
set
aside
as
the
confused
version
of
a
new-made
being
describing
the
marvels
of
his
incoherent
sensations
,
he
subsided
,
a
little
dashed
,
into
listening
to
their
instruction
.
And
the
eldest
of
the
blind
men
explained
to
him
life
and
philosophy
and
religion
,
how
that
the
world
(
meaning
their
valley
)
had
been
first
an
empty
hollow
in
the
rocks
,
and
then
had
come
,
first
,
inanimate
things
without
the
gift
of
touch
,
and
llamas
and
a
few
other
creatures
that
had
little
sense
,
and
then
men
,
and
at
last
angels
,
whom
one
could
hear
singing
and
making
fluttering
sounds
,
but
whom
no
one
could
touch
at
all
,
which
puzzled
Nunez
greatly
until
he
thought
of
the
birds
.
He
went
on
to
tell
Nunez
how
this
time
had
been
divided
into
the
warm
and
the
cold
,
which
are
the
blind
equivalents
of
day
and
night
,
and
how
it
was
good
to
sleep
in
the
warm
and
work
during
the
cold
,
so
that
now
,
but
for
his
advent
,
the
whole
town
of
the
blind
would
have
been
asleep
.
He
said
Nunez
must
have
been
specially
created
to
learn
and
serve
the
wisdom
,
they
had
acquired
,
and
that
for
all
his
mental
incoherency
and
stumbling
behaviour
he
must
have
courage
,
and
do
his
best
to
learn
,
and
at
that
all
the
people
in
the
doorway
murmured
encouragingly
.
He
said
the
night
--
for
the
blind
call
their
day
night
--
was
now
far
gone
,
and
it
behoved
every
one
to
go
back
to
sleep
.
He
asked
Nunez
if
he
knew
how
to
sleep
,
and
Nunez
said
he
did
,
but
that
before
sleep
he
wanted
food
.
They
brought
him
food
--
llama
's
milk
in
a
bowl
,
and
rough
salted
bread
--
and
led
him
into
a
lonely
place
,
to
eat
out
of
their
hearing
,
and
afterwards
to
slumber
until
the
chill
of
the
mountain
evening
roused
them
to
begin
their
day
again
.
But
Nunez
slumbered
not
at
all
.
Instead
,
he
sat
up
in
the
place
where
they
had
left
him
,
resting
his
limbs
and
turning
the
unanticipated
circumstances
of
his
arrival
over
and
over
in
his
mind
.
Every
now
and
then
he
laughed
,
sometimes
with
amusement
,
and
sometimes
with
indignation
.
"
Unformed
mind
!
"
he
said
.
"
Got
no
senses
yet
!
They
little
know
they
've
been
insulting
their
heaven-sent
king
and
master
.
I
see
I
must
bring
them
to
reason
.
Let
me
think
--
let
me
think
.
"
