Theorizing disability is like entertaining the court of Queen Victoria. Doctor Galvani applies electricity to body bits he’s collected from a charnel house and dismembered hands jump. The Earls and Dukes squirm in their seats. Afterwards no one knows what happened except the doctor and all those dead fingers.
Writing creatively about disability is like entertaining the court of Queen Victoria. Annie Oakley shoots an apple off the head of a wooden Indian from an impossible distance. Earls and Dukes squirm. Afterwards everyone thinks Annie absolutely must write her memoirs.
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Planet of the Blind 