Nunez laughed. “I can see it,” he said.
“There is no such word as SEE,” said the blind man, after a pause. “Cease this folly and follow the sound of my feet.”
Nunez followed, a little annoyed.
“My time will come,” he said.
“You’ll learn,” the blind man answered. “There is much to learn in the world.”
“Has no one told you, ‘In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is King?’”
“What is blind?” asked the blind man, carelessly, over his shoulder.
The Country of the Blind
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Herbert Wells
