The Elephant in the Village of the Blind

I am, at the suggestion of my mentor but not without resistance, reading The Norton Anthology of Literature in preparation for the English specific GRE. The first story in the anthology is “The Elephant in the Village of the Blind” and, when i read it, i realized that

Letter on the Blind for Those Who See by Javier Tellez, which I cited as one of my favorite pieces in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, is an interpretation of the same story. Of course, once I went to the Whitney’s page on Tellez, I saw that I could have known this before if I had followed my admiration with curiosity.

I will, however, choose to see this: A good artist can provide a good story in any medium. And, I can recognize a good story when I see one–maybe it is the right decision to pursue a phd in literature. (Always equivocating.)