Blindness (Harvest Book) by Jose Saramago

Author:José Saramago
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Science Fiction, Classics, Contemporary
Publisher: Paperback
Published: 1995-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

On the fourth day, the thugs reappeared. They had come to exact payment from the women in the second ward, but they paused for a moment at the door of the first ward to ask if the women there had yet recovered from the sexual orgy of the other night, A great night, yes sir, exclaimed one of them licking his chops and another confirmed, Those seven were worth fourteen, it’s true that one of them was no great shakes, but in the middle of all that uproar who noticed, their men are lucky sods, if they’re man enough for them. It would be better if they weren’t, then they’d be more eager. From the far end of the ward, the doctor’s wife said, There are no longer seven of us, Has one of you vamoosed, someone in the group asked, laughing, She didn’t vamoose, she died, Oh, hell, then you lot will have to work all the harder next time, It wasn’t much of a loss, she was no great shakes, said the doctor’s wife. Disconcerted, the messengers did not know how to respond, what they had just heard struck them as indecent, some of them even came round to thinking that when all is said and done all women are bitches, such a lack of respect, to refer to a woman like that, just because her tits weren’t in the right place and she had no arse to speak of. The doctor’s wife was looking at them, as they hovered there in the doorway, undecided, moving their bodies like mechanical dolls. She recognised them, she had been raped by all three of them. At last, one of them tapped his stick on the ground, Let’s go, he said. Their tapping and their warning cries, Keep back, keep back, it’s us, died away as they made their way along the corridor, then there was silence, vague sounds, the women from the second ward were receiving the order to present themselves after dinner. Once more the tapping of sticks could be heard, Keep back, keep back, the shadows of the three blind men passed through the doorway and they were gone.

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