Here I present: H. G. Wells, “The Country of the Blind”, 1904, PART TWO (2).
INTRODUCTION.
“The Country of the Blind“, 1904 by H. G. Wells tells the story of a mountaineer who finds himself stranded in an isolated valley inhabited entirely by blind people. Remembering the proverb, “In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King“, he attempts to establish himself as ruler of the country but finds himself unable to explain the concept of sight to them, or to satisfactorily demonstrate the advantages of it, and the community considers him delusional.
“BEGINNING”.
“Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off from all the world of men, the Country of the Blind. Long years ago Think of the rest, the relaxation, in a week of such a life!” continued Mr. Britton.”
COMMENTS.
H. G. Wells as a writer can equate a “Braille slate-and-stylus” to an ink-pen for paper. The paper contains the writing of the blind or sighted. The story “The Country of the Blind”, 1904 has Mister Britton (protagonist) mountaineer unable to show the advantage of sight.
