Touching the Rock
An Experience Of Blindness
Published on 16. May 2013
216 pages
978-0-281-07116-6 (ISBN)
Description
Touching the Rock is a unique exploration of that distant, infinitely strange, 'other world' of blindness. John Hull writes of odd sounds and echoes, of people without faces, of a curious new relationship between waking and dreaming, of a changed perception of nature and human personality. He reveals a world in which every human experience, eating and lovemaking, playing with children and buying drinks in the bar, is transformed. 'The observation is minute, and it is also profound: everything is pondered, explored, to its limit - every experience turned this way and that until it yields its full harvest of meanings. The incisiveness of Hull's observation, the beauty of his language, make this book poetry . . .' Oliver Sacks, from the foreword
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-0-281-07116-6 (9780281071166)
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05/2013
SPCK Publishing
€34.84
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Content
- Intro
- Also by John
- Title page
- Imprint
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Preface to the SPCK Classics edition
- Introduction
- 1. Sinking
- 2. Into the tunnel
- 3. Beyond light and darkness
- 4. Time, space and love
- 5. The wind and the sea
- 6. Round the bend
- 7. Beyond feelings
- 8. Still looking
- 9. Waking up blind
- 10. Lost children
- 11. The gift
- 12. Touching the rock
- Postscript
