PositivePopMattersLooking at the experiences of extraordinarily accomplished blind people is typical of Sacks, who focuses his attention, here and in other books, not only on pathology, but on the miraculous accommodations that some people are able to make with dimming prospects and painful losses. Indeed, these stories themselves, and his recounting of them in this book, begin to seem like Sacks\' own attempt, using the tools he knows best, to cancel out his pain and apprehension ... Of course, not every form of compensation is equally inspiring, and not every subtracted faculty is replaced with some new inner radiance ... If anything, [Sacks\'] eloquent accounts of his patients\' struggles with illness, and of his own medical problems, can reawaken, at least temporarily, an appreciation of how fortunate we are to move through this world with all, or at least most, of our faculties intact. If, later on, we find ourselves once again shuffling numbly through our secret miseries, we can only be helped by remembering, as books like The Mind\'s Eye illuminate for us, that there are few human failings worse than taking for granted life and its manifold hidden miracles.
