The document contains three passages about blindness. In the first passage, a blind girl tries to console a crying boy by telling him his mother is coming, even though the girl cannot see. The second passage discusses a blind man's wife volunteering to go somewhere, though the man would prefer she not go due to his male pride. The third passage describes a doctor's wife stabbing a blind man in the throat with scissors.

1. Blindness

2. preww2p.41The boy was weeping, calling out for his mother, and it was the girl with dark glasses who tried to console him, She’s coming,, she’s coming, she told him…, it was as if she really could see the boy’s desperate mother coming in through the door.

3. mid ww2p.169I’ll go.I’ll go, there was the girl with dark glasses, and there was the wife of the first blind man…I would prefer my wife not to go, but what I want serves no purpose, she has said she is prepared to go, that was her decision, I know that my manly pride, this thing we call male pride, if after so many humiliations we still preserve something worthy of that name, I know that it will suffer, it already is, I cannot avoid it, but it is probably the only solution…

4. Post ww2p.189 … the doctor’s wife reflected as she brought her arm down with tremendous force. The scissors dug deep into the blind man’s throat, turning on themselves they struggled with the cartilage and the membranous tissues.