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Blindness
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What Happens
The story is from the perspective of the cyclops. Quiet and antisocial, he admits he is not handsome and lives peacefully with his goats. He calls himself a philosopher, though one who does not think much, and instead enjoys the sun in his eyes and being able to see the ocean view.
When he returns to his cave, he finds Odysseus and his men, expecting to receive Xenia. The Cyclops, still woozy from the sun for hours, gets thrown in a fit of rage and kills one of his men. Both sides seemingly apologetic, Odysseus gives him wine, which he drinks and then falls asleep because of. When he wakes up, it's to a blinding pain from the spear. The men all flee and the Cyclops is furious and hurt.
Whether his father Poseidon heard him or not, he doesn't know. Later, he bandages his wound and falls under a fever. The fever almost kills him, and though he is blind he sees a vision of Hermes, golden and holding his medicinal symbol of a staff with snakes wound around it.
Poseidon comes, shoos him away, and then saves the Cyclops, his son. Though he is still blind, he is alive, and lives the rest of his time tending to his goats and being more polite to the island farmers who would come and bring him gifts and hear his stories.
Though the Cyclops was once violent and held much hate in his heart towards cruel Odysseus and made up "stories" about him (that are actually true in the Odyssey), but never truly killed him, feeling guilty. In the end, the cyclops is grateful that he does not have sight as a distraction and sleeps better with less bloodthirstiness.