On Dreams Thorson Maureen
On Dreams Thorson Maureen Afflicted with sudden blind spots in her right eye, Maureen Thorson consults her doctor. Because the afflicted eye appears normal, the problem cannot be directly…
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On Dreams Thorson Maureen
Afflicted with sudden blind spots in her right eye, Maureen Thorson consults her doctor. Because the afflicted eye appears normal, the problem cannot be directly observed-except by the patient herself.Faced with the possibility she may lose her sight, Thorson goes looking for answers, reading and thinking her way through art history, science, poetry, folklore, myth, and film. Her diagnosis is AZOOR (acute zonal occult outer retinopathy), a rare condition that has no known cause and is surprisingly difficult to confirm.
She bristles equally at the romantic notion of the blind poet and the clairvoyant one. She engages with Aristotle, who claims that menstruating women stain mirrors red simply by looking at them. She desperately wants to assert control.
"Writing can't save you from going blind," she acknowledges, but it "offers the reductive simplicity of narrative,
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