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The Country of the Blind

99% Invisible

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The Splinter in Your Eye Is the Best Magnifying Glass

Less than 15% of blind people have no light perception. The idea of vision and the idea of sight extends to all blind people, I'd say. You include this quote from Theodore Adorno at the beginning of the book. It goes that the splinter in your eye is the best magnifying glass. Why did you include that quote? What does that quote mean to you?

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