But what can he see?" sings one of the sightless men in "The Blind," an a cappella opera by the Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach opening this week at the Lincoln Center Festival.
He's nearly matched by David Bullivant's garrulous Blind Pew, a sightless but treacherous "advance man" for the cutthroats.
That's the scenario faced by triffid-expert Bill Masen, who finds himself a sighted man in a sightless nation.
The club was open daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and a sightless member, Frances Brown, was on hand every day except Friday, which was men's day.
How likely would a sightless film-maker be to find a budget for a feature today?
A sightless accordion player was followed by a guitar-playing duo, carers guiding the children to the microphone.
The little Pacific island's only indigenous snake was a sightless creature the size of a worm.
The son, Sydney, is a sightless, embittered casualty of war and his three sisters are all, to varying degrees, desperate.
She was a sightless person who once had no nose but now could smell; a woman without a palate who could now eat a hamburger.
"Every night he sits like a sightless spider in his little apartment receiving messages from every tendril of its web," Mr. Rosenbaum wrote.
