“The storm approaches its thunderhead, and it is apparent that the boat drifts ever closer to shore. So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.”

—  Norman Mailer , book Barbary Shore

Michael Lovett, in Ch. 33
Barbary Shore (1951)

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