[LMB] sharing knife discussion

[James Reynolds]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 12:17 PM, lois-bujold-request at lists.herald.co.uk 
wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:48:24 -0600
> From: Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com>
> Subject: [LMB]  sharing knife discussion
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> [LMB] sharing knife discussion
> Kait Bessing kait.bessing at comhem.se
> Sun Dec 2 16:19:28 GMT 2007
>
> I wrote:
>>> I really like Aunt Nattie, although I could give Bujold pointers
>>> about how blind people look and behave (having grown up among blind
>>> people). However,
>>> that's a minor detail.
>

	Snip

> And why a stick indoors? Unless, of course, her legs are acting up. I 
> can't
> remember exactly if that's the case.
>
> A stick for support is one thing. But a stick for feeling her way 
> around -
> in her own, familiar home - that strikes me as quite unnecessary.
>
> Again, none of my blind friends use their sticks in their own homes or
> their
> offices. They keep the stick in the hall, where you hang your coats and
> things. You pick it up as you leave the house - along with your coat 
> and
> your bag.
>
>
>
> ***  Huh!
>
> Nattie's cane is a short, stout job for holding her up despite her
> arthritic knees, as is the shuffling.  It has little to do with her
> blindness.
>
> I never imagined anyone picturing it as one of the long white
> feeler-canes the blind use -- that's such a 20th C. - Our World thing,
> it would be like Dag pulling out, if not a cell phone, at least a
> telegraph key.  Now I wonder how many others mis-pictured Nattie's cane
> in this fashion?
>
> Herding readers is worse than herding cats, I swear.
>
> Ta, L.

Considering the characters of her immediate family, a crisp WHOCK with 
a stick could not help but be of great efficacy.

	*****  Jim Reynolds

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