[Subject line: "written words fly away." The standard proverb is "Verba volant, scripta manent," which means "speech flies away, the written word remains."]

In last Sunday's NYT magazine, there is an article by Rachel Aviv titled Listening to Braille. It originally caught my eye (so to speak) because of my Talking Library work (I read parts of the Tennessean live once a week, and am near the end of recording Kathleen Krull's YA biography of Albert Einstein); within the article itself, what really struck me was the discussion of literacy and cognition, i.e., how does it affect your thought processes and patterns if you experience language primarily through listening rather than reading? (I know non-blind people who prefer audiobooks to print, for instance, whereas I personally vastly prefer type over tape.) Much food for thought.