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18899936 No.18899936 [Reply] [Original]

What's the /lit/ equivalent of a deaf composer or a blind painter?

>> No.18899946

Helen Keller

>> No.18899948 [DELETED] 

a negro writer

>> No.18899951

Homer.

>> No.18899962

>>18899936
The non-autistic author.

>> No.18899987

>>18899936
>A deaf musician! Can we imagine a blind painter? But we know a blind visionary. The deaf musician is now like Tiresias, for whom the world of appearances is closed and who is therefore aware of the basis of all appearance through his inner eye; undisturbed by the noises of life he listens only to the harmonies in his mind and from his depths still speaks only to a world – a world which has no more to say to him. Thus the genius is freed from everything external to himself and remains entirely with and in him. What a miracle it must have seemed to anyone then seeing Beethoven with the look of Tiresias: a world wandering among men, the ‘in itself ’ of the world as a wandering man!

>> No.18899989

>>18899936
Female authors.
Jewish authors.

>> No.18899993

>>18899936
a female writer

>> No.18900084

>>18899936
Christy Brown?

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>>18899936
Unironically Milton, though he was not born blind, he was completely blind by the time he started Paradise Lost. copypasting from wikipedia

>By 1652, Milton had become totally blind; the cause of his blindness is debated but bilateral retinal detachment or glaucoma are most likely. His blindness forced him to dictate his verse and prose to amanuenses who copied them out for him; one of these was Andrew Marvell. One of his best-known sonnets, When I Consider How My Light is Spent, titled by a later editor, John Newton, "On His Blindness", is presumed to date from this period.

>Milton's magnum opus, the blank-verse epic poem Paradise Lost, was composed by the blind and impoverished Milton from 1658 to 1664 (first edition), with small but significant revisions published in 1674 (second edition). As a blind poet, Milton dictated his verse to a series of aides in his employ.

>Having gone blind in 1652, Milton wrote Paradise Lost entirely through dictation with the help of amanuenses and friends. He also wrote the epic poem while he was often ill, suffering from gout, and despite suffering emotionally after the early death of his second wife, Katherine Woodcock, in 1658, and the death of their infant daughter.

>Milton followed up the publication Paradise Lost with its sequel Paradise Regained, which was published alongside the tragedy Samson Agonistes in 1671. Both of these works also reflect Milton's post-Restoration political situation. Just before his death in 1674, Milton supervised a second edition of Paradise Lost, accompanied by an explanation of "why the poem rhymes not", and prefatory verses by Andrew Marvell.

All in his head, dictated from memory and imagination. Can't even imagine what a task writing all that down and then revising it would be like.

>> No.18900213

>>18899936
An illiterate writer. So Homer.

>> No.18900235

>>18900213
There's no real proof regarding Homer's ability to see or to write. Also, innumerable singers and composers of poems were illiterate all the way into the 20th century.

>> No.18900357

>>18900235
There's no real proof regarding Homer

>> No.18900412

>>18900357
There’s no real proof that proof is possible