Everything comes back to my project

Even the cannibalism book I checked out today. I quote, from p. 4 of Eat Thy Neighbour:

When the blind poet Homer wrote his immortal works, the Iliad and the Odyssey in the seventh century BC, he would have been hard pressed not to have included at least one story about someone who ate someone.

Emphasis mine. Leaving out the whole orality/literacy angle of the origins of the Homeric epics... How could a blind poet have written anything before automatic composition and the creation of braille?