the hikers, accustomed to the dark
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front cover (90ºccw, otherwise uninflected)
Albrecht von Haller (1708-77 *), Anfangsgründe der Phisiologie des menschlichen Körpers 7 (1775)
Bavarian State Library copy, digitized March 27, 2012
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The hikers, accustomed to the dark, had little trouble finding gaps and crossings, while the drivers and bikers had to grope their way forward, night-blind after switching off their headlights.
— Peter Handke, The Moravian Night (2008; Krishna Winston, trans., 2016) : 6
tags:
blind; crossings; dark; horizon; night-blind
Albrecht von Haller; Peter Handke