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The Blind Owl
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1937
- Originally in
- Originally in Persian
- Pages
- Pages 130
A reclusive, opium-soaked painter is haunted by an otherworldly woman who appears once and vanishes, and the more he paints her and buries what he has done, the more he dissolves into a hunched old double he cannot tell from himself.
There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.
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