RAIN VISION

"Rain has a way of bringing out the contours of everything:

it throws a coloured blanket over previously invisible things;

instead of an intermittent and fragmented world, the steadily falling

rain creates a continuity of acoustic experience... Usually, when I open

my front door, there are various broken sounds spread across

nothingness. I know when I take I take the next step I will encounter the path,

and that to the right my shoe will meet the lawn...I know all

these things are there, but I know them from memory...The rain

presents the fullness of a situation all at once, not merely

remembered, not in anticipation but here and now. The rain gives

a sense of perspective and of the actual relationship of one part of the world

to the other...I feel as if the world which is veiled until I touch it,

has suddenly disclosed itself to me."

(from Hull:TOUCHING THE ROCK, an account of blindness)