Oedipus at Columbia: What the Blind Man Heard on the Bus

After losing most of his sight, the author is forced to give up his gas guzzler to ride public buses as his main means of transportation around Columbia, capital of the state of South Carolina. He thus discovers an entire universe hitherto parallel to his, where people talk about anything to anyone regardless of the nature of the subject. Now he wishes he were also deaf. Read on: you’ll agree!