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Wells's THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20010622
Author:GAUDET, JODIE R.

When examining H. G. Wells's "The Country of the Blind," critics tend to belabor the point that the blind inhabitants of the mysterious valley hidden in the Andes lack not only sight but insight and imagination. The blind do have insight and imagination, however, especially because their "handicap" has forced the development of more advanced skills. "Much of their imagination had shrivelled with their eyes," states Wells, but "they had made for themselves new imaginations" (137). Is not the blind inhabitants' theory of a rock-arched "sky" a product of their imagination? By ...

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