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Second Sight

by Robert V. Hine
Second Sight

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ISBN13: 9780520208919
ISBN10: 0520208919



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He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal.

That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish. The emotion comes when sight returns; like a child he discovers the world anew—the intensity of colors, the sadness of faces grown older, the renewed excitement of sex and the body.

With the understanding and insights that come from living on both sides of the divide, Hine ponders the meaning of blindness. His search is enriched by a discourse with other blind writers, humorist James Thurber, novelist Eleanor Clark, poet Jorge Luis Borges, among others. With them he shares thoughts on the acceptance and advantages of blindness, resentment of the blind, the reluctance with sex, and the psychological depression that often follows the recovery of sight.

Hine's blindness was the altered state in which to learn and live, and his deliverance from blindness the spur to seek and share its lessons. What he found makes a moving story that embraces all of us—those who can see and those who cannot.

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"Second Sight has meaning for all of us, whether we see well or not well or not at all. . . . Warm subtle, percipient, with strong feelings lightly expressed."—August Frugé

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Robert V. Hine is Professor of History Emeritus of the University of California, Riverside, and Professor Recalled at the University of California, Irvine. Among his many books are Josiah Royce (1992), and California's Utopian Colonies (3rd reprint edition California, 1983).

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ISBN:
9780520208919
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
08/15/1997
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
203
Height:
.61IN
Width:
5.11IN
LCCN:
92031096
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1993
UPC Code:
2800520208911
Author:
Robert V Hine
Author:
Robert V. Hine
Subject:
Biography - General

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