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birthday greetings
Jan. 3rd, 2010 06:25 amIt's Tolkien's 118th birthday anniversary today. Raise your glass to the Professor!
For educational reading today, here's a NY Times Magazine article on the decline of Braille. You know, there's one aesthetically neat thing that the literate in Braille can do better than most other people, and that is to read stories aloud to a circle of friends in the dark. (A recorded book, no matter how well read, wouldn't have the same effect.) I once had the privilege of hearing Tolkien's Ainulindalë read aloud that way from a fat Braille volume of The Silmarillion, and it sealed my appreciation for that magnificently-told creation story.
For educational reading today, here's a NY Times Magazine article on the decline of Braille. You know, there's one aesthetically neat thing that the literate in Braille can do better than most other people, and that is to read stories aloud to a circle of friends in the dark. (A recorded book, no matter how well read, wouldn't have the same effect.) I once had the privilege of hearing Tolkien's Ainulindalë read aloud that way from a fat Braille volume of The Silmarillion, and it sealed my appreciation for that magnificently-told creation story.
