The world I live in / by Helen Keller.

  • Helen Keller
Date:
1908
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Credit: The world I live in / by Helen Keller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV THE POWER OF TOUCH SOME months ago, in a newspaper which announced the publication of the “ Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind,” appeared the following para- graph : “ Many poems and stories must be omitted because they deal with sight. Allusion to moonbeams, rainbows, star- light, clouds, and beautiful scenery may not be printed, because they serve to emphasize the blind man’s sense of his affliction.” That is to say, I may not talk about beautiful mansions and gardens because