This line doesn't mean that Daniel is blind. When a soldier comes off the front line, a soldier who has seen the worst, toughest fighting, is sometimes said to have a "thousand yard stare", the eyes appear to stare right through you and to something far behind you. It's a phrase coined from the Vietnam War.
Very closely, to say "your eyes have died" is a reference to this emotional battle scar (the thousand yard stare). To add that "you see more than I" is saying that Daniel, even though scarred, sees things for what they really are.
@Alsatian I would totally disagree with this view. Bernie Taulpin is english and i'm sure would not know of this. It is clear that Daniel is actually blind. It say's it in the line you quoted.
When he say's that Spain is the best place he has ever seen, he is being ironic, as Daniel cannot see Spain. I know Americans don't do irony, but trust me Brits do.
@Alsatian I would totally disagree with this view. Bernie Taulpin is english and i'm sure would not know of this. It is clear that Daniel is actually blind. It say's it in the line you quoted.
When he say's that Spain is the best place he has ever seen, he is being ironic, as Daniel cannot see Spain. I know Americans don't do irony, but trust me Brits do.
"Your eyes have died but you see more than I"
This line doesn't mean that Daniel is blind. When a soldier comes off the front line, a soldier who has seen the worst, toughest fighting, is sometimes said to have a "thousand yard stare", the eyes appear to stare right through you and to something far behind you. It's a phrase coined from the Vietnam War.
Very closely, to say "your eyes have died" is a reference to this emotional battle scar (the thousand yard stare). To add that "you see more than I" is saying that Daniel, even though scarred, sees things for what they really are.
@Alsatian --Reference to shell shock maybe.
@Alsatian --Reference to shell shock maybe.
@Alsatian I would totally disagree with this view. Bernie Taulpin is english and i'm sure would not know of this. It is clear that Daniel is actually blind. It say's it in the line you quoted. When he say's that Spain is the best place he has ever seen, he is being ironic, as Daniel cannot see Spain. I know Americans don't do irony, but trust me Brits do.
@Alsatian I would totally disagree with this view. Bernie Taulpin is english and i'm sure would not know of this. It is clear that Daniel is actually blind. It say's it in the line you quoted. When he say's that Spain is the best place he has ever seen, he is being ironic, as Daniel cannot see Spain. I know Americans don't do irony, but trust me Brits do.
@Alsatian - Brits certainly know about shell shock and PTSD. My own grandfather suffered from it. "Daniel" was written less than 30 years after WW2.
@Alsatian - Brits certainly know about shell shock and PTSD. My own grandfather suffered from it. "Daniel" was written less than 30 years after WW2.