# A Forward to Insight
by David Samuel Allen — Flash Fiction, Satire

A man reads a third of a book about seeing without glasses, infers the rest, and sets out to improve his life by intuition alone.

## Excerpt
Ten years ago, I was fortunate to come across a book that boasted methods to relieve me of my ocular coadjutors. I was spending the weekend alone at a colleague’s ski cabin with the promise of two full days of the sport. Unfortunately, the snowfall that Friday night transcended “excellent conditions” and left me with “cabin-ridden.” In a completely atypical fashion, I had failed to bring with me any reading material — forcing me to scrutinize the cabin’s few rotted shelves for a compelling read.

The author had claimed that my blurred vision was not simply due to the corporeal, but that I had to open up my “inner vision” to see more clearly. Were I unable to read a sign without my glasses, it was due to some subconscious abhorrence of its text.

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