found this......
"In the country of the blind the one-eyed king can still goof up"
Lawrence J. Peter
The Great American Bathroom Book III
Brent Eades wrote:
> On 28 Aug 98, Eric Poole wrote:
>
> > Does anyone remember who first said "In the land of the blind, the
> > one-eyed man is king"?
>
> Nope... don't remember because I never knew, though of course I've
> heard this quote and variations on it many times.
>
> SO... I turned to the Web for what turned out to be some intensive but
> ultimately fruitless digging. But first I checked my own reference books,
> which confirmed that it isn't Biblical, nor Shakespearean, nor locatable in
> Bartlett's... away I went.
>
> Checked about 12 "popular quotations" sorts of sites, of which one listed
> the quote and attributed it to "Unknown". Searches of major engines,
> Usenet, online encyclopedias and so on, drew mostly blanks, though I did
> learn that there's apparently a popular rock band called "Land of the Blind"
> (speaking of generational differences <g>)
>
> I did come across a sig line from a Usenet archive which referenced the
> quote, attributing it to Polyphemus. This sounded vaguely promising, as
> Polyphemus was a character in Homer's Odyssey, a Cyclops (son of
> Poseidon) who held Odysseus and his men captive until being blinded with
> a hot poker. However, I wasn't able to find, either on the Web or
> amongst my books, any variant on the quote in question.
>
> So I dunno. I know I've seen a discussion of this quotation in print
> somewhere, sometime, but damned if I can remember any details...
> anyone else care to delve into the Web and see what they find?
>
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