The dilemma with 2 Extremes part 2, Danielle Sison

This particular passage struck out to me. I like extremities, I like things in black and white. I don't like to waste time with games or pondering about the "gray" To me, extremities is certainty, its solid, with no doubts. It is limiting, but there's a beauty to limiting. If you are limited, everything becomes boundless. If you choose to seclude yourself from the world, the whole world becomes a fresh entity, a new concept, an idea. So in a way, if you are limited, you are also unlimited. Life for example, if you prefer one genre of music, you limit yourself from other genres. But, if you find a particular song you like in a different genre, a whole new style of music is introduced to you and its fresh, then the music field becomes boundless.

Sabina on the other hand, does not like extremities. I never saw it the way she did.

"Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism." (p94)

Whenever Franz made love to Sabina, he wold close his eyes and Sabina despised that. But Franz saw it as "himself disintegrated and dissolved into the infinity of his darkness, himself becoming infinite." (p95)

In other words, he becomes boundless. But, it makes sense how two extremities can be limiting, the way Sabina saw it. Both pure light and pure darkness are blinding. But if you're blind, how infinite your imaginations can be... or maybe limiting if you been blind your whole life. If you're blind your whole life, where is the source of inspiration of images conjured? Where do you start to figure how a person looks like? What can be your base point? So maybe blindness is not at all boundless, but limiting.