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Cathedral 2


The story is about a blind man who visits a married couple. He is an old friend of the wife, but the husband does not look forward to see the blind man (called Robert) because he does not know what to expect. He has never known any blind persons and his picture of these is based on a very little foundation. He has a lot of prejudices against Robert, but during his visit he changes his opinion about him. While watching TV together they get each other to know better and the husband finds out that he actually likes his company. They watch a program about cathedrals and while talking about cathedrals, Robert says that he does not even know how a cathedral looks like. The husband tries to ...

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when he hears that a blind man is coming. Because he does not know what to expect, he imagines a man, totally different, who does not have the same habits or knows the same thing as “normal” people.
“I remembered having read somewhere that the blind did not smoke because, as speculation had it, they couldn’t see the smoke they inhaled.”
Here he gets his first surprise, when he sees that the blind man actually do smoke. Maybe he realises that even though he has read something in a book it does not necessarily give you the right impression of whatever is described. You have to discover something yourselves and make your own experiences. He has no friends and therefore he probably does not experience so much. Considering the fact that he has never known any blind persons it is a matter of course that he feels unsafe. At the same time he probably feels jealous because of the recently death of Robert’s wife and therefore he is very hesitating about ...

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Added: 4/12/2005 07:14:41 AM
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