LEADER 03778nam 2200529 450 001 9910496143403321 005 20230801215256.0 010 $a0520919122 010 $a0585289743 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520919129 035 $a(CKB)111054828790210 035 $a(MH)003290232-8 035 $a(DE-B1597)543804 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520919129 035 $a(OCoLC)1153475877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30495782 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30495782 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111054828790210 100 $a20230801d1993 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSecond Sight /$fRobert V. Hine 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBerkeley, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1993] 210 4$dİ1993 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 203 p. )$cill. ; 311 0 $a0-520-20891-9 311 0 $a0-520-08195-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$t1. Leadville --$t2. Metamorphosis --$t3. White Canes --$t4. Movies and Light --$t5. The Last Days of the Cataract --$t6. Second Sight --$t7. Returns --$t8. Second Chance --$t9. Renounce Your Ways of Seeing --$tNote and Acknowledgments --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aHe knew he was going blind. While his sight slowly faded, he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West until, nearly fifty years old, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. When, fifteen years later, a dangerous eye operation restored partial vision and returned Hine to the world of the sighted, "the trauma seemed instructive enough" to prompt him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, an engaging, sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish and no self-pity. The emotion comes when sight returns; like a child he discovers the world and its beauty anew - the intensity of colors, the sadness of faces grown older, the renewed excitement of sex and the body. With fine understanding and humorous insights that come from living on both sides of the divide, Hine ponders the relations of sighted and unsighted people. 330 $aHis personal search for the meaning of blindness is enriched and made universal by a discourse with other contemporary blind writers. When the author turns to humorist James Thurber, Buchenwald prisoner Jacques Lusseyran, novelist Eleanor Clark, journalist Sally Wagner, poet Jorge Luis Borges, and teacher John Hull, he clearly relishes the kinship of a brilliant, opinionated family that "apparently can't agree on much but actually agrees on a great deal." With them he shares thoughts on the acceptance and advantages of blindness, resentment of the blind, the blind as "the darlings of the handicapped," the reluctance with sex, explanations for shadow vision, and the psychological depression that often follows the recovery of sight. But Hine's professional and personal life is the heart of his narrative. His blindness was the altered state in which to learn and live, and his deliverance from blindness the spur to seek and share its lessons. 330 $aWhat he found makes a wonderful story that embraces all of us - those who can see and those who cannot. 606 $aBlind$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aBlind 676 $a362.41092 700 $aHine$b Robert V.$f1921-2015,$01379349 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496143403321 996 $aSecond Sight$93418853 997 $aUNINA