Word: masseurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survive and have any value, and continue to be communicated by art, it must be cleansed of the twilight of vague romanticized feeling and of the received idea. ... I believe The Blaze of Noon to be an early sign of the change." The narrator is a blind masseur named Louis Duncan, who tells what happened in the Cornish household of his client, Mrs. Nance, after she had called him down from London to give her treatments. In 15 years of blindness, Duncan has learned to use his other senses with extraordinary acuteness, has even learned to repress his visual fantasies...