Dusk Outside The Braille Press
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- Synopsis
- From the book: Dusk Outside the Braille Press The lights go on in all the windows but one. It's the one in the northeast corner of the narrow three-story building at 88 St. Stephen Street where the proofreading department misses another sunset. Some of the white canes lean against the wall like backslashes in the unpunctuated dark, and some lie folded underneath the chairs like bundles of long chalk, a red one in each, and the fingers are passing over the dots like wind over buildings, and the braille dictionary in seventy-two volumes is stacked practically to the ceiling like a cord of wood. It steams in the darker darkness of a corner and a book louse is journeying imperceptibly through the D's. A proofreader stops reading, opens her watch and closes it click, reaches under her chair for her cane and opens it chick-a-chick into a white line which she sweeps across an invisible line which she walks straight to the hulking dictionary to look up a word which needs hyphenating. Braille is dots in a cell, lots and lots of cells. Each cell is a three-story building at dusk, the lights on in certain windows and not others. Each book is a city where the blind look in through the windows with their fingers pressed to the panes. Outside it's beginning to snow and each snowflake is a different character in the Complete Works of Beauty which contains only one mistake that the proofreading department can find, and the faces pressed to the windows are saying beautiful. And the fingers checking the time are saying time. And the white canes are opening in a chorus of switchblades and beginning to cut their separate paths home.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 40 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781890044176
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/09/07
- Copyrighted By:
- Paul Hostovsky
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Disability-Related, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Barbara Wagreich
- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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