out how empty Robert is. Roberts indifferent response spawns the blind mans determination to take Robert to the sublime. Both essays, written by two very notable geniuses, can easily be applied to a recent work such as Cathedral. Robert and the blind mans portrayal of the sublime and things imitated vs. things that are, according to Plato, real and true is maybe less implicit than what I have described, but their ideas are universal enough that they can be applied explicitly....