Cathedral

Great story. Wonderfully written. The ending was obviously the best part. The man/narrator "sees" nothing but what is in his mind. He is drawing a cathedral, but once he's in the rhythm of the picture the blind man tells him to "close [his] eyes" (1567) and to keep drawing. Once he finished he refused to open his eyes. I think he pictured life from the blind man's perspective. Through this blind man he was able to be outside of himself and see something in his mind as vividly as he ever has. "It was like nothing else in my life up to now" (1567).  I think that through this exercise the narrator has a spiritual experience. He's unable to answer his wife when she asked him what was happening (1566). This man had a sort of "out of body experience" where he left his physical world and went into a state of complete zen, kind of reminds me of meditation actually. We can see this clearly in the second to last paragraph of the story: My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew it. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything (1567).