Comments | philthecow: Four Overworked Eyes

philthecow

Four Overworked Eyes

Mar 13, 2007 20:12

Well, today was a monumental day for my personal reading history ( Read more... )

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mollya March 14 2007, 00:56:37 UTC

I saw some film adaptation of shakespeare many years ago - Macbeth perhaps? - and there was this genius thing in it: a character had to read a letter, and he held it at arms' length and tilted his head to the side to try to read it ... because he didn't have reading glasses. When I saw that I had the same revelation as you did - in the past, literate people lost their ability to read when their eyesight failed.

Also, I had the exact experience you had with the glasses, except I was in the first grade. I got my eyes tested and they said, "How do you read what the teacher writes on the balckboard?" and I said, "You are supposed to be able to read the blackboard?" I thought it was part of the mystery of school that you weren't supposed to know what the teacher was writing.

miraling March 14 2007, 00:59:14 UTC

Think about it this way: you're way, way ahead of those of us who started with glasses earlier. You can do that much more reading! :P

ursule March 14 2007, 01:15:31 UTC

I got glasses my sophomore year at Swarthmore. I was sort of miffed at how few people noticed.

stina_marina March 14 2007, 02:08:43 UTC

do you remember in 8th grade when we had the pep rally? the gym class was making fun of teachers, and i was mrs fleming, so i borrowed my mom's huge nerdy glasses from college. in the middle of the skit i put on the glasses ("have you girls seen my glasses? oh my, theyre right here on my head!"), and i completely lost my train of thought because i was like "whoa!.... i can see everyones face!" on the ride home i kept putting them on, and as soon as i was like "WOW! i can see the leaves on the trees!" my mom hit the brakes and basically took me straight to an eye doctor.

ive actually talked to at least two other people who didnt realize you were supposed to be able to see the leaves until they got glasses.

post pictures! i bet theyre hot.

polyhymnia March 14 2007, 02:20:00 UTC

I bet your glasses are awesome. On the other hand, I have heard that the eye exercise thing is for serious -- there's even a book about it. So, if you don't want to deal with glasses, you should try it. Because I have good vision (slowly detioriorating, I assume, but maybe I inherited my mom's eyes) and so I'm too lazy. :-)