Cathedral

“I wasn't enthusiastic about his visit.”

“My idea of blindness came from the movies.”

“A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.”

“She told him everything.”

“”If you love me”, she said, you can do this for me. “If you don’t love me, okay”.

“But if you had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit. I’d make him feel comfortable.”

“I don’t have any blind friends.”

“I felt sorry for the blind man for a little bit.”

“I’m imagining now her last thought maybe this: that he never even knew what she looked like.”

“”We ate everything there was to eat on the table. We ate like there was no tomorrow.”

“The blind man had right away located his foods, he knew just where everything was on his plate. I watched with admiration as he used his knife and fork on the meat.”

“I’ll try some with you.”

“I rolled us two fat numbers. I lit one and passed it.”

“Hold it as long as you can.”

“In could tell he didn't know the first thing.”

“It’s fine with me. Whatever you want to watch is okay.”

“I’m always learning something. Learning never ends. It won’t hurt me to learn something tonight. I got ears.”

“But maybe you could describe one to me?”

“I wish you’d do it. I’d like that. If you want to know, I really don’t have a good idea.”

“I hope you don’t mind me asking you. Can I ask you something? Let me ask you a simple question, yes or no, I’m just curious and there’s no offense.”

“But let me ask if you are in any way religious? You don’t mind me asking?”

“Close your eyes now”

“So we kept on with t. his fingers rode my finger as my hand went over the paper. It was like nothing else in my life up to now.”

“My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything.”

“It’s really something”