{"id":7034,"date":"2014-06-13T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2014-07-22T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T16:06:16","slug":"snellen-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/snellen-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Snellen Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snellen_585x585\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It came to me three dimensionally.<\/p>\n

The word images of late<\/p>\n

could be seen with the flash of a bulb pointed at the pupil,<\/p>\n

the image imprinted on knots of neural tissue<\/p>\n

recalling the eye chart<\/p>\n

E<\/b><\/p>\n

F\u00a0 P<\/b><\/p>\n

T\u00a0\u00a0 O\u00a0\u00a0 Z<\/b><\/p>\n

L\u00a0 P \u00a0E\u00a0 \u00a0D<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0P E C F D<\/b><\/p>\n

E D F C Z P <\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0_________<\/b><\/p>\n

F \u00a0E \u00a0L\u00a0 O \u00a0P \u00a0Z \u00a0P<\/p>\n

D \u00a0E \u00a0F \u00a0P \u00a0O \u00a0T<\/p>\n

_____________<\/p>\n

L\u00a0 E\u00a0 F D\u00a0 O E\u00a0 Z\u00a0 P<\/p>\n

F D PL TC E O<\/p>\n

P EZ OL P F T D<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The patient came to the museum of objects<\/p>\n

caressed the pieces she could not see.<\/p>\n

The docent supplied words of context.<\/p>\n

The patient caressed the object.<\/p>\n

The patient enquired if the nubs of her fingers<\/p>\n

wired in sensory nerves<\/p>\n

could be felt by the object.<\/p>\n

The docent said perhaps.<\/p>\n

Eyes looking out<\/p>\n

Above and beyond<\/p>\n

Understanding<\/p>\n

seeing a vision of the object that could not be seen<\/p>\n

rounding it out in the brain<\/p>\n

feeling the color<\/p>\n

and producing an after image on the retina<\/p>\n

three dimensionally.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Cheryl Spinner currently lives in Durham, N.C., where she is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Duke University. She received her Master’s Degree in English at Georgetown University in the spring of 2010. A native of Queens, N.Y., her writing intertwines\u00a0yiddishe kopf<\/i>\u00a0with a certain kind of New Yawk flair. As a scholar-artist, Cheryl has received training at the Century for Alternative Photography in 19th<\/sup>-century analog techniques. \u00a0You can follow her research blog at\u00a0electricladieszap.wordpress.com<\/a>. Check out her photographic work at\u00a0electriccameraszap.tumblr.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The patient came to the museum of objects<\/p>\n

caressed the pieces she could not see.<\/p>\n

The docent supplied words of context.<\/p>\n

The patient caressed the object.<\/p>\n

The patient enquired if the nubs of her fingers<\/p>\n

wired in sensory nerves<\/p>\n

could be felt by the object.<\/p>\n

The docent said perhaps.<\/p>\n

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