Blindness: a cultural history
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The Blind's Guide to a Better Life
You get a vision of what your life might possibly have been like if you lived at a different time. I love the 18th century blind musician Teresa Von Parady who got strips of silk and put knots in them so she could tell or remind herself whether music changed, either rhythm or key. She also invented raised maps so she had her core engineer create a map for her so she could feel how the world was. Braille, amazing, 1828 doesn't get to be universal until 1860s but it is the most intimate, private way of being able to read without having A someone read to you or B even have a computer read to you.
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