Annie Dillard - Seeing Part 2

Annie Dillard Seeing
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“While he was blind he was indifferent to objects unless they were edible; now, ‘a siring of values sets in … his thoughts and wishes are mightily stirred and some few of the patients a thereby led to dissimulations, envy, theft, and fraud.”

This quote is so interesting because reminds the reader how much we base value off of appearance. It is interesting to think that color and light are so appealing that they can cause someone to completely change as they did in this incident. It raises the question, what would society be like if it was not influenced my sight and images?

Annie Dillard Seeing
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“I’m told I reached for the moon; many babies do. But the color-patches of infancy swelled as meaning filled them… The moon rocketed away.”

This idea that the world is full of infant possibilities and we are limited only by ourselves is not new. This however made it much more real to me. It is true that before we give light a meaning, the world is dazzling a beautiful and nothing is out of reach. As we get older however, we become accustomed to the dazzle, and we tell ourselves what is impossible