Touching the Rock is a unique exploration of that distant infinitely strange 'other world' of blindness John Hull writes of odd sounds & echoes of people without faces of a curious new relationship between waking & dreaming of a changed perception of nature & human personality He reveals a world in which every human experience
- eating & lovemaking playing with children & buying drinks in the bar
- is transformed' The incisiveness of Hull's observation the beauty of his language make this book poetry; the depth of his reflection turns it into phenomenology or philosophy' Oliver Sacks neurologist & bestselling author (1933-2015)' He lets us see with no trace of self-pity or self-praise how blindness has become for him a genuine acquisition an unforeseeably rich gift that has made from him what so few of us are excellent watchers & hearers of the world triumphant in the teeth of ruin' Reynolds Price American novelist (1933-2011) Notes on Blindness a feature film & virtual reality experience by Peter Middleton & James Spinney based on John's original audio diaries The project is an Archer's Mark Production in association with Fee Fie Foe Films & 104 Films in co-production with Agat Films & Cie Ex Nihilo wwwnotesonblindnesscouk