y. These glimpses of reality opened his life as he made discoveries that risk enhanced his life-risk did not detract from it. The prisoners in Platos Cave do not realize that reality is as near as the causeway out of the cave. They do not know that they must take risk to gain knowledge. They are comfortable in the mistaken belief of what reality is because the fire is their only source of knowledge about the world. In Carvers Cathedral, the narrator is enlightened by Roberts capabilities We sat down at the table for dinner. We dug in. We ate everything there was to eat on the table. We ate like there was no tomorrow. We didnt talk. We ate. We scarfed. We grazed that table. We were into serious eating. The blind man had right away located his foods; he knew just where everything was on his plate. I watched with admiration as he used his knife and fork on the meat. Hed cut two pieces of meat, fork the meat into his mouth, and then go all out for the scalloped potatoes, the beans next, and then hed tear off a hunk of buttered bread and eat that. Hed follow this up with a big drink of milk. It didnt seem to bother him to use his fingers once in a while, either. (Page 102).Curiously, the final insight for the husband comes when he closes his eyes in order to imagine and draw the cathedral. Close your eyes now, the blind man said to me. I did it. I closed them just like he said. Are they closed? He said. Dont fudge. They are closed, I said. Keep them that way, he said. He said, dont stop now. Draw. So we kept on with it. His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was nothing else in my life up to now. Then he said, I think thats it. I think you got it, he said. Take a look. What do you think? But I had my eyes closed. I thought I would keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do. Well, he said. Are you looking? My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But, I didnt fe...
