{"_id":"6453118f19cb073f0b4a67af","title":"Going Blind","author":"Henry Lawson","code":"going-blind","words":2141,"publish_year":1896,"publish_source":"While the Billy Boils","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/whilebillyboils00lawsuoft/page/70/mode/2up","image":"oldhands.jpg","image_alt":"A pair of elderly hands clutching a cane. graphite filter.","genres":["literary"],"blurb":"Darkness fell quickly upon him now—or, rather, the “sort of white blur” increased and closed in. But his hearing was better, he said, and he was glad of that and still cheerful. I thought it natural that his hearing should improve as he went blind.","description":"A young man meets a bushman in a hotel. The older man is going blind, and wonders what work he will be able to do in the country once his sight worsens.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}