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The Sightless, Maurice Maeterlinck 1890

This is a link to Maeterlinck's play, The Sightless, also called The Blind. The death of the priest or the death of the Priest? To whom shall we go now? Maeterlinck wanted to get divorced but the Catholic Church said no. https://archive.org/details/intruderb... Maurice Maeterlinck won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 and lived in Belgium and France 1862-1949. In the centre, and in the deep of the night, a very old priest is sitting, wrapped in a great black cloak. The chest and the head, gently upturned and deathly motionless, rest against the trunk of a giant hollow oak. The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness, in which the purple lips fall slightly apart. The dumb, fixed eyes no longer look out from the visible side of eternity and seem to bleed with immemorial sorrows and with tears. The hair, of a solemn whiteness, falls in stringy locks, stiff and few, over a face more illuminated and more weary than all that surrounds it in the watchful stillness of that melancholy wood. The hands, pitifully thin, are clasped rigidly over the thighs. On the right, six old men, all blind, are sitting on stones, stumps and dead leaves. On the left, separated from them by an uprooted tree and fragments of rock, six women, also blind, are sitting opposite the old men. Three among them pray and mourn without ceasing, in a muffled voice. Another is old in the extreme. The fifth, in an attitude of mute insanity, holds on her knees a little sleeping child. The sixth is strangely young, and her whole body is drenched with her beautiful hair. I like his book, The Measure of the Hours, published in 1907 because he tells me where he's coming from and what he stands for. He was considered a Prophet of Dissent. The Descent into Dissent. https://archive.org/details/measureof...