Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were stacked on the windward side of the steeple by artful Insurrectos who took care to work under the eaves of the church, out of range of the machine gun. Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper smoke poured up to envelop the steeple, blind, gag, choke. Passed ten minutes. Then the bolts of the church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries...
...philosophy aims at instructing the people to obey leaders who have intelligence to guide them. But this philosophy will fail in a situation where the blind are leading the blind and know not where they are going...
...hard for anyone who has not been blind to realize what a thrill it is not to have to see everything. It is really marvelous not to look at a lot of things and people that you don't want...
...Someone thanked God who made him blind so that his soul could see. I have come to believe that there is a lot of truth in that...
...elements; while for the disciple of Jung, the white whale is the symbol of the Unconscious which torments man, and yet is the source of all his proudest efforts." Less tortuous is Mr. Mumford's own interpretation: "The white whale stands for the brute energies of existence, blind, fatal, and overpowering, while Ahab is the spirit of man small and feeble, but purposive, that pits its puniness against this might, and its purpose against the blank senselessness of power...