"Joe Haldeman - None So Blind (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Haldeman Joe)

nerves. What
if it made her only half blind, but also blunted her musical ability?
She knew
how other people read music, at least in theory, but after a quarter-
century of
doing without the skill, she wasn't sure that it would do much for her.
It might
make her tighten up.
Besides, most of her concerts were done as charities to benefit
organizations
for the blind or for special education. Her father argued that she
would be even
more effective in those venues as a recovered blind person. Still she
resisted.
Cletus said he was cautiously for it. He said he had reviewed the
literature and
talked to the Swiss team who had successfully done the implants on dogs
and
primates. He said he didn't think she would be harmed by it even if the
experiment failed. What he didn't say to Amy or Lindy or anybody was
the grisly
Frankensteinian truth: that he was himself behind the experiment; that
it had
nothing to do with restoring sight; that the little video cameras would
never
even be hooked up. They were just an excuse for surgically removing her
eyeballs.
Now a normal person would have extreme feelings about popping out
somebody's
eyeballs for the sake of science, and even more extreme feelings on
learning
that it was a husband wanting to do it to his wife. Of course Cletus
was far
from being normal in any respect. To his way of thinking, those
eyeballs were
useless vestigial appendages that blocked surgical access to the optic
nerves,
which would be his conduits through the brain to the visual cortex.
Physical
conduits, through which incredibly tiny surgical instruments would be
threaded.
But we have promised not to investigate that part of the story in
detail.
The end result was not grisly at all. Amy finally agreed to go to
Geneva, and
Cletus and his surgical team (all as skilled as they were unethical)
put her
through three 20-hour days of painstaking but painless microsurgery,
and when
they took the bandages off and adjusted a thousand-dollar wig (for