[alyasa]

High fives for all the practically blind men and women of the Sonic Youth forums... Actually there's a guy in my class who uses something that looks like a miniature telescope to look at anything. He reads by placing the screen or book about 1 or 2 mm away from his face. That's about the distance of this hyphen: - The lecturers always give him special treatment because of this and he gets to hand in assignments a bit late and is given extra time in papers, because it's so hard for him to read. He really is blind, practically, but I've never worked up the nerve to actually ask him or talk to him about his condition. I did a project with him once and he's amiable and hardworking. Shame he doesn't recognise me whenever I see him around. If I call out his name, he has to stand right in front of my face to see who he's talking to...