How the Blind Can See "The Sun and Other Stars"
We can only catch the Love that moves the Sun and other stars when we look into someone’s eyes.
Alexander Filonenko, a philosophy professor from Kharkiv, tells about one of his best friends, a 14-year-old blind boy Oleg who reads about 150 books a year (audiobooks on speed 3).
One day, Alexander was on his way to a lecture on Dante by a famous Italian pedagogue Franco Nembrini. Franco happened to be walking by his side — it was Alexander who had i…
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