Jane was an employee at a paper manufacturing plant for seven years. For the first six and a half years of her employment, Jane had always received satisfactory reviews from her plant supervisor John, although these reviews documented her occasional tardiness and one disciplinary action for a safety violation. However, Jane’s performance was always rated satisfactory overall, and John did not c...

were entirely due to the accident of sightlessness. For instance, there sat Rollo, slouched in his seat, his mouth half-opened, one hand flapping persistently back and forth before his one quite hopeless eye; Rollo, who never answered by much more than a grunt unless it were to explode into violent recriminations; seventh-grade Rollo, who could read a Braille sentence seventeen times and still ...

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