
Hello darkness, my old friend: how daring dreams and unyielding friendship turned one man's blindness into an extraordinary vision for life
Disabilities, Biography, Journals and memoirs, Family and relationships, Biography of persons with disabilities
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Summary
Author describes how losing his eyesight as a Columbia junior affected his life trajectory. He went on to Harvard and Oxford and--among many other accomplishments--he invented a compressed speech machine which speeds up the reproduction of words from recordings without… distorting any sound. The title reflects his long friendship with Art Garfunkel. 2020