Yesterday all the “abled” people fell apart. Worldwide. From Minsk to Cartagena, Duluth to Reykjavik, the unassuming normals became instantly (insert disability here). “It’s some kind of Death Ray or something,” said Vladimir Putin, Csar of all the Russias. Putin appeared before the press in a rolling beggar’s cart, but most of the press didn’t notice as they were hyper-active and busy counting the drupelets in the chandeliers.
See how it works? Jose Saramago ain’t got nothin’ on this baby! Schadenfreude is a limited province of course and the game is trivial, except for one thing: the exercise proves dis-articulation as metaphor is a loser’s game.
I’d like to see American writers who presently have no disabilities get along for a year without using blindness or deafness as metaphors.
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I could hug you for that last sentence! Yes, no more stupid “disability as metaphor.” I’d also put in a pitch for, no more disability in an ancillary character as a “developmental experience” for the protagonist.
Best,
Day
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