pg. 700-706
1) “Form and distance, and size were so many meaningless syllables. (700)”
This was saying that seeing is important to people because then people have no depth, shape, and volume of things. So people who can see have an advantage but it gives them advantages for their other senses. Seeing is important to most people those who are not they can do without it because they know they can rely on other senses. People take advantage of things that they have and that others don’t. They will never know unless it is taken away from them.
2). “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. (704)”
When people use their eyes, most people know what they are thinking about because the eyes tell a lot about people’s thoughts. If someone role’s their eyes people know that he doesn’t like what they are talking about. When people’s eyes are big, people know that he is surprised or amazed and so on. Eyes can be silent words that people have to figure out about the person. The eyes also can be part of the person’s personality depending on what they mostly do.
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