Reading Blindly: Literature, Otherness, and the Possibility of an Ethical Reading
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Chapter 1:  Blindness, or What Is This No-Thing We See?
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Chapter 1

Blindness, or
What is This
No-Thing We See?

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors…Total blindness is the complete lack of form and light perception and is clinically recorded as “NLP,” an abbreviation for “no light perception.” 1

When something is written onto a page, there is an inscription made and the page is marked, there is a mark left behind. The only way which we can read that mark is when light reflects from it and forms an image that goes through the pupil and is focused on the retina. Sensory cells from the retina relate the image via neurons onto the visual cortex, which is the part of the