The Writer Who Couldn't Read
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Uploaded by npr on Jun 21, 2010
Imagine you wake up one morning and can't read. Your eyes work, but the letters on the page have turned into squiggles. They make no sense. Now meet Howard Engel, a writer of detective stories, who has this condition, but amazingly, has found a way to trick his brain to almost read again.
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May be those are lies?
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howard looks like lev's dad
1 month ago 6
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There's a girl in my class named Alexia...
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I tried to draw letters on the roof of my mouth with my tongue, but it tickles like a son-of-a-bitch!
3 months ago 9
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this is fucking fascinating. no really. no jokes here. fucking fascinating!
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@Aggressive46 Hey, come on, that's a little harsh don't you think? It's just an analogy to say it was like it was in an alphabet that he was unfamiliar with but which was still slightly similar to the latin alphabet and not, say, Chinese. No need to take it personally, he wasn't insulting your language.
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COOL STORY BRO!!!
IT INSPIRES ME!
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damn had to jinx it didnt u?
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serbo-croatian, majku mu jebem neobrazovanu neandertalcu jebenom!!!!!!!
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Srpsko-Hrvatski :D lol :D
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My spelling would go to hell, bu it didn't have far to go.
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