Butterflies Are Free Page #4

So, just be yourself.

Well, I always thought

that blind people were...

you know, kind of spooky.

But of course.

We sleep all day hanging upside-down

from the shower rod.

When it's dark we wake up

and fly in through people's windows.

That's why they say, "Blind as a bat."

No, I'm serious. Now be serious.

Don't blind people have a sixth sense?

No. If I had six senses,

I'd still only have five, wouldn't I?

And my other senses,

hearing, taste and touch...

might be a little more developed

than yours because I use them more.

I'll show you something.

Spin me around.

No, I mean really spin me.

- There's something in front of me.

- The window.

That's wild. How'd you do that?

- It's called shadow vision.

- What's shadow vision?

It's being able to sense that

there's a solid object in front of you.

You can feel it. It's a warning.

Sighted people can do it, too...

- but blind people can do it better.

- I want to try it.

Ouch! My...

There are advantages to being blind.

Oh, I think it's so great you're not bitter.

You don't seem to have

any bitterness at all.

I know I'd be terribly

bitter if I couldn't see.

- I know I'd be disagreeable.

- I doubt it.

Oh, no. I couldn't be cheerful like you.

I don't have any of those marvelous

qualities like courage and fortitude.

Well, neither do I.

I'm just naturally adorable.

You're a lot more than that.

You're a very superior person.

Oh, yeah. I'm fantastic.

"I would not go gentle into that good night"

"I would rage

against the dying of the light"

Dylan Thomas.

- Who?

- It's a line from a poem by Dylan Thomas.

It is?

You mean I can quote Dylan Thomas?

How about that? I never even read him.

I don't know where I learned it.

I can quote Mark Twain.

My favorite quotation is by Mark Twain.

- You want to hear it?

- Go.

"I only ask to be free."

"The butterflies are free."

"Mankind will surely not deny

to Harold Skimpole..."

"what it concedes to the butterflies.'"

I identify strongly with butterflies.

Do you like it?

Yes, very much,

except it wasn't written by Mark Twain.

- Why not?

- It was written by Dickens.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah.

Harold Skimpole is a character

in Bleak House by Dickens.

Oh, I never read Dickens.

Actually, I never read Mark Twain either,

but I always thought he wrote that.

Have you read... Oh, God!

I have read Dickens

and I've read most of Mark Twain...

and stop falling apart at every word.

They're published in Braille.

It's awful to ask someone

who's blind if he's read something.

Not at all.

Actually, I read very well

with my fingertips.

Just ask me

if I've felt any good books lately.

- Does anybody ever read to you?

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