hope is a subtle glutton;

"In a study of sixty-seven blind Illinois schoolchildren conducted in the 1920’s, researcher Elinor Deutsch found that hearing was the most important mode of perception, followed by touch. One girl dreamed that she was in the middle of a heard of buffalo, which she recognized by their stamping and bellowing. Another dreamed that her mother suddenly fell to pieces, her bones rattling across the kitchen floor."

— Mysteries of the Human Body (via rayborchers)