cane? Bloodless pious face like a fellow going in to be a
Penrose! That was that chap’s name.
Look at all the things they can learn to do.
- Read with their fingers.
- Tune pianos.
Or we are surprised they have any brains. Why we think a deformed person or a hunchback clever if he says something we might say.
Of course the other senses are more.
- Embroider.
- Plait baskets.
People ought to help. Work basket I could buy Molly’s birthday. Hates sewing. Might take an objection. Dark men they call them.
Sense of smell must be stronger too. Smells on all sides bunched together. Each person too.
Then the spring, the summer: smells. Tastes.
They say you can’t taste wines with your eyes shut or a cold in the head. Also smoke in the dark they say get no pleasure.
And with a woman, for instance. More shameless not seeing. That girl passing the Stewart institution, head in the air. Look at me. I have them all on. Must be strange not to see her. Kind of a form in his mind’s eye. The voice, temperature when he touches her with his fingers must almost see the lines, the curves. His hands on her hair, for instance. Say it was black for instance. Good. We call it