vishspal
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Post by vishspal on Sept 27, 2018 23:10:10 GMT
Just out of curiosity are there any famous writers who don't read?
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Post by hi224 on Sept 28, 2018 7:42:12 GMT
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Henrik Ibsen
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 30, 2018 2:42:57 GMT
Borges after he lost his sight, I suppose. I don’t know if he read Braille.
Emendation: he never learned Braille.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 30, 2018 13:45:32 GMT
Borges after he lost his sight, I suppose. I don’t know if he read Braille.Emendation: he never learned Braille. I forget the source, but I did hear that Borges had others read to him after his blindness left him incapable. I suppose there are some, but I can't imagine any great writer (heck, any writer worth their salt) not reading. |
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Post by lunda2222 on Sept 30, 2018 20:12:13 GMT
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Henrik Ibsen As well as any other writers who's dead. |
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Post by hi224 on Sept 30, 2018 21:42:19 GMT
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Henrik Ibsen As well as any other writers who's dead. They never read while alive. |
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mrdanwest
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Post by mrdanwest on Sept 30, 2018 22:00:55 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 1, 2018 4:25:25 GMT
John Milton went blind but supposedly he taught his daughters to read latin or Greek so he could read through them. Supposedly he didn't teach them how to understand it--not sure how that works. I guess he had them learn phonetics from a teacher. As long as they could pronounce the words it didn't matter whether they understood or not.
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Post by amyghost on Oct 1, 2018 11:50:41 GMT
John Milton went blind but supposedly he taught his daughters to read latin or Greek so he could read through them. Supposedly he didn't teach them how to understand it--not sure how that works. I guess he had them learn phonetics from a teacher. As long as they could pronounce the words it didn't matter whether they understood or not. Milton wasn't exactly ahead of his time on that whole 'equality' thing. |
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