
Notes on Blindness
Hello. Testing, testing, testing...
Daddy, Daddy...
This is cassette one, track one.
10th of July 1983.
Have we begun yet?
Disembodied voices... 22nd February.
Speaking out of nowhere... 1984.
Disappearing into nowhere.
Thank you very much for the tape.
Everything drifting away.
Waterlogged, immobile.
Hello and welcome to...
A religious crisis... Down, down...
Can't we just go back?
It's a long time ago, isn't it?
Hmm...
How difficult it is to remember
the detail...
Let's think...
We were married on the 1st November
'79.
Well, you were driving, of course.
Well, you certainly weren't driving!
We took off down to...
- We got to Chichester.
- Oh, that was it... Was it?
- Where was our honeymoon?
- The southern edge of the...
- What was it called?
- Began with a C, Cirencester.
Ah! That was it, Cirencester.
That's a long way...
That ghastly B&B!
we've ever stayed in.
I don't remember it being so bad.
- The bed was covered in dust!
- Yeah.
- I'm sure there were bedbugs.
- Well.
Do you remember the way the tide came in?
Right up the main street.
It took the form of a... dark,
black disc...
which slowly progressed across
the field of vision.
Went very quickly.
The doctor said that the eye
was so badly traumatised
from previous surgery...
"All we'll be able to do
is to preserve a little bit of sight."
Of course, you never believe that.
You keep on hoping.
That was the final eye operation.
Yes.
You were just out of hospital
when Tom was born.
He's smiling.
He's smiling at you.
I still had that little bit of vision.
I would see a flicker of a shadow
across the window
Yeah.
If I stood underneath
the central light in the room,
I could tell if it was on or off.
The stars had gone, the moon had gone.
I must still be able to see the sun,
mustn't I?
They didn't think it would last long.
Here we are again.
Another part of Imogen Hull's tape.
Er, side two. Now, then...
Imogen...
She was thrilled, you know,
as an older sister, having a little brother.
I don't think she realised
what was going on.
The little drop of the Father
on thy little beloved forehead.
The little drop of the Son
on your forehead, beloved one.
A little drop of the Spirit
on your forehead, beloved one.
There was nobody much around
in the university.
I could hear one of my friends saying...
"You know that John Hull's going
completely blind?"
Stopping and hearing that.
Ah!
Thoughts just came tumbling into my mind.
What about my reading? My research?
What about my teaching?
How am I going to teach?
How am I going to lecture?
Without any notes!
I went up to my office and sat there.
The students will be here
in about five weeks.
Now...
How am I going to do this?
all the things they could offer.
There were special holiday
homes for blind people.
Maybe I'd like to have a dog and...
And she said, "You need a mobility course."
But I said, "No, I'm not doing that."
I haven't got time!
Most people would have made the time.
I was just too busy
keeping up with everything.
Well, you were also stubborn.
You were, sort of, in furious denial.
The only thing I was interested in
was how to function as a blind academic.
That, nobody knew.
We've got...
The Long Surrender.
Autumn Conquest.
I needed to have serious
books recorded sensibly.
Uh... What about anthropology and sociology?
All that was basically available
in the United Kingdom
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