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In 1992, when Henry Grunwald skipped a wine glass into which he was pouring normal water, he assumed that he needed new spectacles, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But, in truth, Grunwald was coming into the early periods of macular degeneration - a continuous loss of eyesight that influences almost 15 million Us citizens yet remains inadequately understood and it is, up to now, incurable. Now, in Twilight, Grunwald chronicles his connection with disability: the clouding of his eyesight, and the daily struggle to overcome its physical and mental implications; the finding of what medication can and cannot do to restore eyesight; his compulsion to understand how the vision works, its progression, and its own symbolic meaning in culture and fine art. Grunwald provides us an autobiography of the attention - his visual awakening as a kid and young man, and again as an older man who, facing the increased loss of sight, feels an evergrowing wonder at the most ordinary serves of seeing. This is a story not only about experiencing but about living; not only about losing eyesight but about attaining insight. It is a remarkable yoga.
