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...Then, on Dec. 10, disaster struck. Clemente injured his retina in practice and was declared gone for the season. The Crimson got demolished by Colgate in its next outing, seemingly stunned by the news. Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan acknowledged that despite some early success, it was definitely a rebuilding season now. Without a go-to guy, Harvard endured a tough Christmas break, losing games to South Florida and Vermont while picking up just one win, at Sacred Heart...
When a spot of light hits our retina at its blind spot (where there aren't any photoreceptors), our brain fills that part of our visual field by extrapolation. We usually don't even notice. Literature can do the same thing. Non-fiction is constrained by facts. Facts are easily manipulated and never paint a full picture of a person or an event. There are too many blind spots, too many hidden motives. Fiction, by contrast, can fill in the gaps between the facts. It necessarily presents an impression, an over-arching framework that selects certain facts and disregards others...
...original work includes several recent publications on the subject of retina axons...
Even though Clemente missed 11 games last season after undergoing surgery to repair a detached retina, the sharpshooting 6'7 forward appeared in 16 games this season and averaged 16.8 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. The 1997-98 Rookie of the Year, Clemente will begin next year's season with 997 career points, needing only three more to become Harvard's 20th 1,000-point scorer...
Dead-eye Dan Clemente? Yes, but not in quite the way we were expecting. After being diagnosed on Dec. 9 with a detached retina, the 6'6 junior underwent what was believed at the time to be a season-ending eye surgery. But that all changed on Feb. 1 when Clemente's doctor permitted him to return to the hardwood...