Borges was not exactly born blind..though he had eyesight problem all along...his sight detoriated over the years till he was totally blind...
and he was actually a librarian twice...once as a junior librarian and later after the change of the Peron regime, the director of the national library of argentina...
On 8/11/06, ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(just tested the ipod reader thing....it seems to work ! the only minor glitch is the formatting of
the text is a bit off....but that is probably because of the )
sastry wrote on 08/11/2006 10:32:54 AM:
> (at the oldest). After that your eyesight starts playing up and you start
> looking for bigger and bigger text (eg one alphabet per screenful) or when
> you get to my age - braille starts getting more and more attractive.
>
i had a physics tutor during my schooldays who was partially blind. we would sit in a darkened
room, and and ask us to read out the lessons and questions by turn. all explanations and
answers were verbalized.
he was so good at it, he could work out solutions to mathematical equations in his head.
certain sounds aggravated him, like the clicking of a ball point pen. soon, ball point
pens were completely forbidden during his sessions.
on some evenings, when i reached his house, he would be seated on a recliner in the
verandah, and a young girl from the neighborhood would be reading a chapter out to him
from a withered novel authored by someone called jorge luis borges.
many years later, in an airline bookshop i found a book by borges, and out of curiousity
began reading it. there was a brief bio at the beginning of the book -- apparently borges
was also blind, and never learnt braille.
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