Sublime

“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world’s highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing.”

until I die peacefully, still seated in the chair. My official cause of death: prolonged blindness. (I thought I’d invented this fictional malady—terminal blindness—until I read Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. In that play, the half-blind Clov blames the totally blind Hamm for the death of an unseen character, Mother Pegg, because Hamm refused to give he