"Once upon a time, there was an old woman, blind, but wise. In the
version I know, she is the daughter of slaves. The woman is black, American,
and lives alone, in a small house, outside the town. Her reputation for wisdom
is without fear and without question. Among her people, she is both the law and
its transmission." (Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture, 1993).
I am looking into Toni Morrison’s world again, attempting “to see without pictures”, following her words that “language alone is meditation”, in her Nobel Prize Lecture, in 1993. The image of the story at the heart of the speech, an old blind woman, challenged by some youth who want to prove her clairvoyance powers a fake, attempts to build a link between my Toni Morrison experience and the world of the silent, to understand how the world really is, what is the eternal which so easily shifts between our world and that beyond us...
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