eyelessness

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eyelessness - blindness due to loss of the eyes

blindness, cecity, sightlessness - the state of being blind or lacking sight

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"Virginia Woolf's Refutation of Ocularcentrism: The Eyelessness in the Moment of Being." Journal of the Ochanomizu University English Society 1 (2010): 5-15.

"Little accidents": Virginia Woolf and the failures of form in "The Moment: Summer's Night"

Most of Yedalian's works are concerned with the metaphorical ramifications of eyes and eyelessness.

The human body, tender, attenuated

Like the world itself, so a carving and any other text will have emerged from the same spiraling process of maturation as Grace relates about the ancestral figures in the carving of the prologue: "The previous life, the life within the tree womb, was a time of eyelessness, of waiting, swelling, hardening.