Cathedral

I enjoyed this narrative and was very interested in each little twist from the start.  I typically have problems with people who are intolerant and don't except others, so from the beginning I was at odds with the narrator.  Perhaps that made the reading more interesting for me though.  I did appreciate how the narrator slowly started to makes attempts at grasping an understanding of the blind man's world and began to become somewhat sympathetic to his situation.
This article raised a really interesting idea for me.  I have always been a visual person.  My architectural education over the last three and a half years have led me to be even further rooted in the appearance of things visually.  Often times the best student projects in our studio portray a thesis or suggestion simply through imagery.  Words tend to weaken an argument and so we strive to eliminate the need for verbal explanation in our presentations.  The story about the blind man reminded me that such a form of communication is not the only way of demonstrating an idea.  Other forms of art that introduce smells, sounds, etc. begin to explore this.  The blind man, despite being very aware of his surroundings as described by the narrator, required more detailed descriptions of the world around him or needed to feel things rather than see them with his eyes.  I think I would greatly struggle in a world where I could not see things with my eyes, but then I guess there are other ways of "seeing" the world.