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Read & copy the quotation
“The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter.”
- Source
- The World I Live In
- Date
- 1908
Meaning of “The hand is my feeler with which I…”
Keller describes active exploration rather than passive limitation: touch becomes a way to pursue experience, pleasure, work, and connection with the world.
Where does it come from?
The World I Live In (1908), Chapter I, “The Seeing Hand,” printed page 5, Project Gutenberg #27683. Keller calls the hand her “feeler” reaching through isolation and darkness to seize pleasure and activity, describing her own tactile engagement with the world rather than prescribing one universal sensory hierarchy.
