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The Country of the Blind

99% Invisible

CHAPTER

The Paradox of Identity

The book ends with the idea that there isn't a country in the blind, you right? The blind belong to our world. We belong to theirs. It's the same world. How did your feelings about the H.G. Wells story change over the course of writing the book? I think this journey was realizing that it's a two-way street and there's a lot that sighted people can learn from blindness and vice versa.

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