5/11/2023 0 Comments Hg wells best short stories![]() As the blindness slowly spread over many generations, the people's remaining senses sharpened, and by the time the last sighted villager had died, the community had fully adapted to life without sight. The isolated community prospered over the years, despite a disease that struck them early on, rendering all newborns blind. The valley had been a haven for settlers fleeing the tyranny of Spanish rulers, until an earthquake reshaped the surrounding mountains, cutting the valley off forever from future explorers. Unknown to Nuñez, he has discovered the fabled "Country of the Blind". At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope in the mountain's shadow, he finds a valley, cut off from the rest of the world on all sides by steep precipices. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. ![]() "'Carefully,' he cried, with a finger in his eye." ![]()
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