Listening to Braille
In her recent article in the New York Times Magazine, “Listening to Braille,” Rachel Aviv quotes a writing excerpt from a sixteen-year-old blind student whose literacy has developed through aural/oral means, without the benefit of braille. This single excerpt is meant to stand as damning evidence of the failure of oral-based literacy:
He looked in the [...]
from my notebook: class
Class is to sublime longing into thread for future clothes.
Class is twenty minds in pursuit of a genius loci.
Class is disciplines self to group.
Class is individuates self from group.
Class is the black pupil dragged across the white board.
Class is poetry by other means.
Class is poetry by mean.
Class is this being graded?
