The Intelligence Estimate

I got a copy of Art World the other day (for reasons I don't feel like defending right now) and I was reading about a historic house in Moscow that is perfectly cylindrical. It was built by an architect by the name of Konstantin Melnikov.

It is now in the beginning stages of being converted into a museum. The problem they are facing is that they cannot determine who the owner is. When the original owner passed away he willed the house in equal shares to two family members. Each of them in turn sold off their shares to others who sold their shares to other and so on and so forth and the ownership got to be very suspicious and murky.

The part of the story that interested me was when one of the residents, while living there, went blind. Not completely blind, just legally blind. But blind all the same.

Now, at the risk of offending everyone who ever loved The Miracle Worker, how did a blind man live in a cylindrical house? My guess would be: not well. I'm pretty sure that he didn't live there because he wanted to at that point. He just lived there because he couldn't find his way out.