going blind

There was a little revelation at the end of this great post on the story "Borges & I" for me, as it had not occurred to me either.

The last line of “Borges and I” famously ends with the sentence, “I do not know which of us has written this page.”

It hadn’t occurred to me before but by the time that Borges composed that line he had already gone blind. So, in the physical sense of writing, he actually did not write that line. It was written by someone else, the person listening to him.

Yeah.... i really, really don't want to go blind. Just because the blog is/was Orbis Quintus doesn't necessarily mean that Borges is my favorite writer (as i probably do not have one,) but since i may or may not have early onset glaucoma (as no one else in my family has had this,) i'm feeling a bond to him stronger than before.