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the errors to which sight

 
The errors to which sight is liable diminished its value in her eyes.

I should read all things like braille in this season

—

1. ex Denis Diderot, “Addition” to the Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See (1749, 1773)
   (Jourdain translation, 1916) here
2. ex Gwendolyn MacEwen, “Poems in Braille,”
   in A Breakfast for Barbarians (Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1966)
   and (in full) at Canadian Poetry Online
    

4 September 2013

tags: blind; blindness; braille; error; Denis Diderot; Gwendolyn MacEwen