Cabello/Carceller

CABELLO/CARCELLER 348
_Greys (Fiction #2), 1998
Instead of worrying about that strange eye condition, she always
seemed to be defending her particular stance on what she used to
call “a useful little disaster.” She believed that the ability that
allows one to appreciate the whole spectrum of colors was nothing
but a burden for those who suffered from this defect, obliging them
to break their experiences down into a never-ending descriptive
decomposition. According to her, for those who had this capacity,
the visual world was turned into a perceptual conflict which,
faced with a completed assimilation of the exterior, demanded great
effort obstinately aimed at the exasperating definition of each
perceived element. This personal approach led her to declare that
this supposed defect from which she suffered and which made her see
without appreciating the difference in colors, restricted to the
scale of greys ranging from black to white and/or vice versa, constituted
an indisputable quality, not the contrary. Her defect had
the effect of distancing her from that reductionist precision and
allowed her to move in a territory in which the wealth of the range
of greys constituted a spur for what she liked to call “creative
undefinableness.”
Insisting on the fact that seeing in black and white was
nothing but an advantage over the rest of us, she managed to
convince several people who actually went ahead and had operations
done on them so that, like her, they could achieve a greater perceptual
freedom that would liberate them from the need to hold onto
such a highly defined chromatic scale.
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