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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby This man wrote a fucking BOOK by BLINKING HIS LEFT EYE. Af
by discojesus 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby
This man wrote a fucking BOOK by BLINKING HIS LEFT EYE.
After reading his story, you might find it easier to do your homework.
- iigs 17y agoDespite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again. Man, how did they not work up a system like morse code? That's horrible. Mad props for the patience, though.
- nswanberg 17y agoBeing clever would have taken time away from the goal of writing a book. It's arguable that the book would have been done sooner had they both taken the time to learn Morse Code (or Huffman Coding), but they quickly found a workable solution and got on with it. They did one clever thing, though: To make dictation more efficient, Bauby's interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, read from a special alphabet which consisted of the letters ordered in accordance with their frequency in the French language.