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Praise for Blindness

"A superb novel by the internationally acclaimed

Saramago…echoes of Orwell's 1984…a brilliant

allegory that may be as revolutionary in its own

way and time as were, say, The Trial and The Plague

in theirs. Another masterpiece."

Kirkus Reviews

"Extraordinary…through scenes of the greatest

bleakness there runs and undercurrent of verbal

beauty that surfaces at unlikely moments."

The Observer (London)

"The spare simplicity of Saramago's narrating

voice, the stripped-down quality of his

characterizations, the austerity of the style…

all contribute to the mythic air there is about

Saramago's work, the distinct impression of

having been given, not made."

Times Literary Supplement

"His work recalls García Márquez for its epic reach

and Primo Levi for its insight into the fragility of

human nature under adversity."

The Times of London

"There are Absurdist echoes, deft ironies, and

passages of great lyrical beauty. There is — dare

one say?—something millenial about Blindness. It

is swept by a gust of the Zeitgeist."

The Financial Times

"Saramago is an emphatic, impassioned writer and

Blindness is a bold piece of work—almost biblical

in scale and style, hauntingly sustained."

The Independent (London)

BlindnessA NOVEL

José Saramago

Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature A city is struck by an epidemic of

"white blindness." The first man

to succumb sits in his car, waiting for the

light to change. He is taken to an eye

doctor, who does not know what to make

of the phenomenon—and soon goes

blind himself.

The blindness spreads, sparing no one.

Authorities confine the blind to a vacant

mental hospital secured by armed guards

under instructions to shoot anyone trying

to escape. Inside, the criminal element

among the blind holds the rest captive.

When the compound is set ablaze, and the

blind escape into what is now a deserted

city, strewn with litter and unburied

corpses. The air is permeated with a smell

of mustiness and indefinable putrefaction.

The only witness to this nightmare is the

doctor's wife, who faked blindness in order

to join her husband in the camp. She guides

seven strangers through the barren streets.

The bonds within this oddly anonymous

group—the doctor, the first blind man and

his wife, the old man with the black eye

patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy

with no mother, and the dog of tears—are

as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is

harrowing. Told with compassion, humor,

and lyricism, Blindness is a stunning

exploration of loss and disorientation in the

modern world, of man's will to survive

against all odds.From the universally

acknowledged master story-teller, one of

the most challenging, thought-provoking,

and exhilarating novels published in any

language in recent years.

José Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922. His

novels have been translated into more than twenty

languages and have established him as one of the

world's most influential living writers.

"No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim

to lasting recognition than this novelist."

Edmund White

The New York Times

"José Saramago's Blindness is his most surprising

and disturbing book. It is a fantasy so persuasive

as to shock the reader into realizing how fragile

and contingent our social conditions always have

been and will be. This is a novel that will endure."

Harold Bloom

"Saramago is one of Europe's most original and

remarkable writers…His writing is imbued with a

spirit of comic inquiry, meditative pessimism, and

a quietly transforming energy that turns the

indefinite into the unforgettable."

Richard Eder

Los Angeles Times

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On an overcast day, I left my Valley Village apartment and headed towards Atomic Cycles in Balboa Park. I planned to be a spectator at an event called, The Choppercabras Horrorcycle Club’s Spring Thing 2006 (aka, The Mustache Ride), but I didn’t quite know what to expect. All I knew was that the event’s participants needed to have a bicycle and a real or fake mustache. A promotional poster proclaimed the ethos of the event: Two-wheel fun, never so dumb! As I walked through the alley next to Atomic Cycles, I saw that the rear parking lot had been turned into a playground for the big kids. Many of the big kids were dressed in blue, button-up shirts and khaki pants, had wild haircuts, and wore dark shades. Most importantly, every participant, male and female, adult and child, donned a mustache. Mustached people moved from group to group, like in a game of musical chairs, admiring each other’s bikes and mustaches,

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other like brave warriors and all for the ultimate prize—a trophy made out of old, spare bike parts. After these two events were completed, the winners named, and participants haphazardly bandaged, everyone was invited to ride their bikes through the streets of the Valley in one intimidating, yet humorous mass of metal and color. The shining, tricked-out, personalized bicycles, made individual statements about creativity. The most interesting object I saw strapped to the front of a bike was a Bert doll from Sesame Street. The bikes eschewed those mass-production looks many bicycle

manufactures and designers seem to value. These were bike riders with individuality, and could not be dismissed as mere outcasts, shunned by four-wheeled society. Although the ride was meant to be fun, it also carried a very important message: motorists need to be reminded that they share the streets with bicyclists. The bicyclists rode unique bikes that day also because they wanted to protest city laws that they feel limit their creativity and unique qualities. The riders seemed to violate one code in particular, code 21201.

Code 21201:(a) No person shall operate a bicycle on a roadway unless it is equipped with a brake which will enable the operator to make one braked wheel skid on dry, level, clean pavement.

(b) No person shall operate on the highway any bicycle equipped with handlebars so raised that the operator must elevate his hands above the level of his shoulders in order to grasp the normal steering grip area.

(c) No person shall operate upon any highway a bicycle which is of such a size as to prevent the operator from safely stopping the bicycle, supporting it in an upright position with at least one foot on the ground, and restarting it in a safe manner.

as they waited for the event to begin. It was a lot of visual information to process. Two events occurred in the parking lot. The first event was called, The Demolition Derby. For this event, old tires had been stacked in a large circle. Grown men sat on brightly colored children’s bikes and proceeded to smash into

each other, much to the delight of the spectators. There seemed to be no rules for this event. The participants started when they felt like it and abused each other with reckless abandon. These men wore joyful smiles on their faces, but their bodies were bruised, scraped, and

bleeding after just a few minutes in the ring. The second event was The Ben Hurt Race, influenced by the chariot scene in the movie, Ben Hur. The chariots were constructed from old girls' bikes and were modified to hold a second rider on a platform behind the driver. The course the event took place on was the shape of a figure eight, leaving tons of room for collisions with other chariot riders. These men fought each

The impact of the “Mustache

Ride,” compared to normal

bicyclists on the road is like

the difference between

night and day.

A group of free-thinkers on two wheels rebel against local laws and conventions at an event called Spring Thing, sponsored by the Choppercabra's Horrorcycle Club.

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competed in the Tour de France. A majority of the bike riders were aerodynamically dressed to cut down wind resistance. They all rode multi-speed bikes in unison, with numbers on their backs, making them just another number in the crowd and less of an individual. The only people with any kind of individuality in the race were either at the front or back of the pack, simply because they were easiest to identify in a sea of bicycles. But no matter where these bicyclists are located in the group, most of them were forgotten once the race was over. The same is true when I saw bicyclists on the street before attending the Spring Thing. They may be carrying groceries home or just using their bike as a cheap form of transportation.

I didn’t really notice what they were doing or what their bikes looked like. Only after attending Spring Thing did I noticed that there are many personalized and unique bikes on the street. Just one look at a Choppercabra bike and you can tell that both the bike and their owner are overflowing with attitude.

References

Choppercabras Horrorcycle Club Spring Thing

2006 Poster California.

Department of Motor Vehicles.

Vehicle Code. Equipment Requirements 21201.

Amended Ch. 723, Stats. 1979.

Effective January 1, 1980.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/

d11/vc21201.htm.

De Valera, Paul. Personal Interview.

22 May 2006.

Events like this ride show

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likethe Spring Fling are provoking thought by forcing motorists to recognize them and remind them that they share the road. They are also calling into question some of our deeper values staged as

a confrontation between “the individual” (bicyclist) and “technology,” (the car) and ultimately, humanity vs. progress. Events like this ride show us what happens

when people loosen up the unwritten social conventions and use their sense of individuality. Lance Armstrong is the perfect example of a bike rider that represents advanced technology. This is most apparent when he

The Choppercabra riders’ presence on the streets brought traffic to a complete halt. A single person, riding a regular bike, in the bike lane, could never have as great of an impact. That’s what most American are used to seeing on the streets — one bicyclist. It was clear that passing motorists were both angered and amazed by what they encountered on the streets that day. The ringleader for the day was the owner and operator of Atomic Cycles; a man known as Paul De Valera. A few days after the event, I returned to Atomic Cycles to meet Paul, because I wanted to get a better perspective on the madness behind the organized event. Paul told me he was inspired to get people into an arena of violence. He clearly invites everyone to join in and release their built up aggressions. Paul referred to the blood spilled in the arena as

badges of honor. The owner of Atomic Cycles suggests that the purpose of these rides is to have fun and act like kids, but, more importantly, the purpose of these events is to create awareness among motorists that bicyclists have the right to ride safely on the streets. In a city like Los Angeles where motorists are under the impression that they own the road, they rarely have any kind of recognition of or care for pedestrians - let alone bicyclists. They make the roads generally unsafe. The bicycle riders who comes to events

It was clear that passing

motorists were both angered

and amazed by what they

encountered on the streets

that day.

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through the funnel.After that, I dropped a vmarble through the funnel and waited for it to come to a complete stop on the level surface. Once it came to a complete stop, I marked the spot with a black pen. I conducted this experiment several times at this height and noted that the results were stable. I didn’t drop the marble as many times as in the computer simulated experiment. However, Iassume that had I done it as many times, the pattern on the surface would have looked similar.The second funnel experiment I

conducted was also a variation on the

first rule. This time, I positioned the funnel at a higher point. As before, I marked the spot on the surface where the marble would first land when it was dropped. Again, I marked the spot where each marble came to rest, using a

red pen. Because this experiment was also a variation of the first rule,

the results were also stable. However, the marks were more

spread out than in the first experiment because the

funnel was positioned higher off the ground. I then decided to layer the results of the second test over the first test

to get a better sense of the variation between the two tests. Although both results were stable,

I noticed that in test one, the majority of the marble’s stopping points were concentrated closer to the marble drop Conversely, while the second test’s results were still stable, I

noticed that the marble stopping points were

more spread out. About half of the stopping points were marked near the site of the marble drop, while the other half we spread out on the flat surface. This leads

The objective of the funnel experiment is to drop a marble througha funnel and hit a

target. The target is a point on a level surface. The spot on which the marble

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times. Dr. Deming noted four rules in the funnel

experiment. These four rules are essentially four

different kinds of funnel experiments. In rule one, the

funnel is not moved. It is centered over the target and left there for the duration of the experiment. In rule two, with

each drop of the marble, the funnel is moved from its

previous position. In rule three, the funnel is moved a specific distance

from the target. In rule four, the funnel is simply moved over the

last place the marble rested. When Dr. Deming conducted

these experiments, he noted the variation in the relative

position of the marble coming to rest, in the application of

each of his four rules. For example, even in the first rule where the

funnel remained in one spot, the marble rolled to different spots every time it traveled through the funnel. Despite the different locations of the marble stops in all four rules, Deming described his results as either a stable or an unstable process. For example, rules

me to believe that if the object of the experiment were

to get as many marble stops

concentrated around the original drop spot, it would be better to position the funnel closer to the paper. The funnel test proves that there is variation. Even when an experiment is conducted one hundred times, the

outcome is never exactly the same. The same holds true in Graphic Design. For example,

when I was designing a stamp for a project, I had to take into consideration paper texture, ink quality, stamp size, and ink coverage. I never got the same results twice. I eventually ended up with a final product; however, I had to go through a process of experiments (much like the funnel tests) in order to get the desired results. Various conditions made achieving of a final product a lengthy process. Conducting the funnel test experiments made me view design work in a different light and helped me to see how physical science is relative to other disciplines.

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one and two are stable, because all the drops are

clustered in a fairly tight group Conversely,

rules three and four as unstable,

because the drops are spread out. I conducted

two funnel experiments using what I have learned about Deming’s work. Both experiments were based on rule one. The funnel was fixed in one area. I set up a level surface (a large piece of paper) and placed the funnel at a specific height above the paper. Using a green pen, I marked the spot on the paper where the marble would first land once it was dropped

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