After having read Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, I have come to believe that the line "A blindness that touches perfection/But hurts just like anything else" is referring to the first split second of an epilleptic attack which Dostoyevsky referred to as some sort of complete enlightenment.
After having read Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, I have come to believe that the line "A blindness that touches perfection/But hurts just like anything else" is referring to the first split second of an epilleptic attack which Dostoyevsky referred to as some sort of complete enlightenment.