Blind Rage by Georgina Kleege

Author:Georgina Kleege
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 2018-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

October 26

But this is all nothing but another digression. Forgive me for that. Anyway, I raise an ugly possibility here. Yes, it is possible that Teacher deceived you, altered people’s words to you, distorted facts, left things out on purpose. But it was a possibility you willed yourself to ignore. You trusted Teacher. You trusted Teacher because you had always trusted Teacher. You took her word for everything, because if you started questioning her accuracy, much less her motives, there would be no end to questions. That’s why they call it blind faith, after all.

And there’s something else, too. Unlike a lot of seeing-hearing people who assumed you were merely the passive receiver of her words, she knew you had access to the world beyond what she told you. She knew from her own experience that a person doesn’t have to see to be observant. And she’d known you long enough to know that you were particularly attuned to the finer nuances of human interaction. True, you could not see facial expressions or hear tones of voice but you could feel, among many other things, changes in the air currents that signaled the tension or relaxation of the people around you. She also knew how adept you were at reading her, interpreting meaning from the mobility and temperature of her hands as she spelled to you. She may have doubted whether she could deceive you even if she wanted.

Another thing: I must not underestimate her adaptation to the particularities of your shared life. Just as you were accustomed to receiving information from her, she was accustomed to delivering it. She was narrating every event while it was in progress. And she’d been doing it long enough that it was second nature, no longer always in her conscious control. It would not be that easy to switch off the flow of accurate information.

Besides, she knew you had many friends who felt she had too much sway over you. So if she ever deceived you and you found out, those enemies would step in and she’d be on her own.

So you believed her account of everything was as accurate as anyone’s. Belief can make things true.

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