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In the Bible, both Luke and Matthew are agreed that if the blind lead the blind, both will wind up in the ditch.† In The Fourth World, Novelist Daphne Athas does more than underwrite the common sense of the Gospels. She digs a fictional ditch big enough to hold...
At Canopus Institution (See-Eye) the students are shackled by more than sightlessness. Dr. August, the director, is an icy administrator who thinks the blind really are a different breed, not inhuman, perhaps, but difficult wards of the sighted. What he can least abide is the merest evidence that the...
In a way, Dr. August is right. These blind kids are different. They resent the pity, the implied superiority, the power that normal vision gives to the sighted. Seeing through their other senses, they catalogue the weaknesses of their teachers and parody them mercilessly. They have a simple rule of...
Many short-sighted individuals, however, might fear totalitarianism. They can cite Dean Leighton's power to refuse entry to people from gauche geographical areas. In a Free Harvard the good Dean could control immigration completly. Similarly, there is some fear that Free Harvard would automatically become a Theocracy, under the...
Within 15 minutes of his arrival Ike, who had brought two shotguns* with him, was out with Humphrey in a hunting wagon. Accompanied by eight pointers, the two men rolled through the piney woods to the hunting area, where the dogs soon flushed two coveys of quail. Ike fired at...