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Greenberg calls it “the worst couple of hours in my life.” At the university, Greenberg bumped into a man who apologized to him. He somehow managed to get back to the university, bumping into people and things. Suddenly, Greenberg was left alone in the crowd, completely terrified and not knowing what to do. One day, Garfunkel told his friend at Grand Central Station that he had to immediately leave for an assignment. Garfunkel called himself “Darkness” when he was around Greenberg, a sign of empathy toward his friend. And Garfunkel changed his life at the university to accommodate his blind friend, helping him walk to class, tending to wounds, walking together in the city, filling out forms for him, and so on. In college, Greenberg was completely dependent on his friend. After much insistence from his friend, Greenberg agreed and enrolled in the university once more. It was then that Garfunkel came to him and talked Greenberg into going back to Columbia. Greenberg stopped talking to people and isolated himself. Psychologically, he was intensely depressed.
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He was watching a baseball game when he experienced his vision becoming cloudy. As such, the young man dropped out of college. Since Greenberg came from a simple home, his family did not have the money to help him out. It was later found that glaucoma had destroyed Greenberg’s optic nerves. Though the doctors diagnosed that he was suffering from conjunctivitis and the blindness would soon pass, it did not. It was the worst couple of hours in my life."īack on campus, he bumped into a man, who apologised.Just months later, Greenberg lost his sight. "I started running forward, knocking over coffee cups and briefcases, and finally I got to the local train to Columbia University. It was a horrendous feeling of shame and humiliation. I had my hands out and bumped into a woman's breasts.
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Guiding Sandy through New York one day, as they stood in the vast forecourt of bustling Grand Central Station, Garfunkel said that he had to leave for an assignment, abandoning his blind friend alone in the rush-hour crowd, terrified, stumbling and falling. Though Simon wrote the song, the lyrics to The Sound of Silence are infused with Garfunkel's compassion as Darkness, Sandy's old friend. Garfunkel would talk about Sandy with his high-school friend Paul Simon, from Queens, New York, as the folk rock duo struggled to launch their musical careers, performing at local parties and clubs. He altered his entire life so that it would accommodate me." “Then he would take me to class and back. Sandy recalls: "He would come in and say, 'Darkness is going to read to you now.' The singer explained: "I was saying, 'I want to be together where you are, in the black'." Garfunkel called himself "Darkness" in a show of empathy. Art would walk Sandy to class, bandage his wounds when he fell, and even filled out his graduate school applications. Together they returned to Columbia University, where Sandy became dependent on Garfunkel's support. I need you back there.That's the pact we made together: we would be there for the other in times of crises. "He was pretty insistent, and finally said, 'Look, I don't think you get it. He said, 'You're gonna come back, aren't you?' "I said,: 'No.There's no conceivable way.' "And then unexpectedly Arthur flew in, saying he had to talk to me. "I wouldn't see anyone, I just refused to talk to anybody," says Sandy.