At 02:19 PM 8/28/98 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > Does anyone remember who first said "In the land of the blind, the
>> > one-eyed man is king"?
It was indeed Michael Apostolius who coined the phrase: "In the country of
the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
_ Proverbs _ (15th c.).
Which leads me to some interesting points:
1] The net is an immensely valuable tool with which to convey information,
but it has some ways to go before everything known will be conveyed by it;
2] If the phrase is catalogued somewhere out there in cyberspace, it's
hidden so well it has yet to be picked up by search engines (for whatever
reasons);
3] And finally, by combining all the assets the network has to its avail
(email networking, the www, ftp, etc.), more and more information will find
its way into the hands of others. The questions are: what will this
information be used for, who will benefit by it, and who will have access
to it.
On that note, one imagines were Michael Apostolius living today and had he
a computer hook-up, he might have fathomed: in the land of the one-eyed
kings, the blind, they have braille readers.
On a different note and per a passing fancy, one-eyed kings might also tend
to be mad. Likewise, they might tend to see things that were not. And
the blind, well, you know...
Jan Cohen, on the mind's eye, clarity in thought and presentation, and the
ability to instill.
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