“The description of the bandaged eyes of the images left a strong enough impression on their imaginations, though in a quite different way. The first blind man and his wife, for example, were rather uneasy, for them it was mainly an unpardonable lack of respect. The fact that all human beings were blind was a calamity for which they were not responsible, these are misfortunes nobody can avoid, and for that reason alone covering the eyes of the holy images struck them as an unpardonable offense and if the parish priest had done it even worse. The reaction of the old man with the black eye patch was quite different, I can imagine the shock he must have had, I imagine a museum in which all the sculptures had their eyes covered, not because the sculptor did not want to carve the stone until he reached the eyes, but covered, as you say, with bandages, as if a single blindness were not enough, it’s strange that a past like mine does not create the same effect, sometimes it even gives people a romantic air, and he laughed at what he had said and at himself. As to the girl with the dark glasses, she said that she only …