[bksvol-discuss] Re: The Lost Symbol is in!
- From: "Melissa Green" <graduate56@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:56:54 -0600
Anne you are so right.
If they don't ask you if you have read it. They just talk about it and you
just sit there. With nothing to contribute to the comversation.
Melissa Green
Without Christ I am nothing, Without me Christ is still God. It's because
of Christ I am able to stand!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:20 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: The Lost Symbol is in!
Hi all,
Roger, your problem is that you've never been in the position of sitting
with a group of people at a dinner table or in a living room and having
everyone all excited about a given book. They talk about it and why they
liked it or didn't. Being able to enter the conversation and talk
intelligently is a definite plus. Way, way, way, too often I've been in
the position of having to say, "Um, well, no, I haven't read the book.
It's not in an accessible format and I probably won't get it for a couple
of years."
People look at you with pity. They say how awful it is and how badly they
feel that I'm blind and yada, yada, yada! Huh, them's advanticiously
blind or who are younger than twenty, don't know the half of it, not the
half of it. You have it so easy now, guys, you really do! You just have
no idea, none!
If you've got Bookshare, you can go and download it right now, this
minute, and have it on your stream in less than five minutes! That is so
incredible! People talk about Best Sellers, Roger. They want to know
what you think. It's a way to have a conversation with sighted people on
an equal footing. Why do you think The Association for the Blind Book
Club in this city chose to read The Shack by Young? They did because it
is the All Rochester Is Reading book for the year. It keeps you current.
It keeps you in the loop. It keeps you on a level playing field socially
with your sighted peers. Oh, Roger, it is so very important! Bookshare
and the Stream make this possible!
It's the same thing when I check the news on the day of the World Series.
I could care less about baseball or football but I check the news because
I want to be able to talk intelligently about something everyone's talking
about around me. I can't understand this attitude especially from someone
like you. Don't you want to know what the prolitariate is up to, or do
you subscribe to the Wells philosophy? "All animals are equal but some
are more equal than others."
<grinning and poking you gently>
Ann P.
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