Addtional Insights

"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see." (Saramago, 1995)

 Here the Doctor's Wife, who appeared to be the only exception to the white blindness, speaks of the blindness metaphorically to explain how she thinks that every individual is blind in perceiving their own lives. It is only until they have overcome the catastrophic disaster of the white blindness pandemic that they are no longer blind to who they are—or rather who they intrinstically desire to be.