![]() ![]() Indeed, only tentative and not well thought out steps are taken to deal with the emergency. By the next chapter, the car thief, the other patients in the surgery, and the ophthalmologist have all been infected by the white blindness! As soon as the eye specialist examines the man, he concludes that this kind of blindness "defies explanation." He tells his patient to go home, assuring him that he will be contacted as soon as he finds a remedy as well as an explanation for the disease. The blind husband and his caring wife thus must go to their ophthalmologist in her car. ![]() But the good Samaritan turns out to be a car thief the car keys are nowhere to be found the car is not where it is supposed to be. They reach his flat, where his wife takes charge and decides to consult an eye specialist. ![]() He (all characters in the novel are unnamed) explains frantically to the irate drivers who berate him, "I am blind!" Soon he is weeping and crying out loud, "I see everything white." A man, apparently a good Samaritan, volunteers to drive him home. ![]() We are at an intersection where as a traffic light switches from amber to green, a car driver finds himself unable to move. The opening paragraphs of Blindness are innocuous enough. ![]()
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