Danny Glover credited as playing...
Man with Black Eye Patch
- Man with the Black Eye Patch: I know that part inside you with no name, and that's who we are, right?
- Man with the Black Eye Patch: [Closing Lines] At that moment... the same unspoken thought occurred to everyone: "He was the first to go blind. Perhaps... we will all regain our sight in turn." So the celebration was not entirely selfless. The next days, the next weeks... would therefore be sleepless with anticipation. They would see again. This time, they would really see. But who would be so timid... as to cling to this blanket of blindness? Who would be so foolish as to fear... that its intimacies might be lost? And what of this woman... who is now so strangely silent... who has borne such a terrible weight... and is now so suddenly free? Already she could imagine the voices of the city, shouting: "I can see!" "I'm going blind", she thought.
- Man with the Black Eye Patch: Weeks passed, and with time, and the constant coverage... the city was bored back to work. Oblivious to the evidence all around them... that the disease was immune to bureaucracy.
- Man with the Black Eye Patch: And either the panic spread the blindness. Or the blindness spread the panic.
- Man with the Black Eye Patch: One can only imagine the inclined heads... the wide eyes, the tears. Why do they ask were they tears of joy or sorrow? Joy and sorrow are not like oil and water. They coexist.