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The sounds of silence

Turn the light on, so I can hear what you’re saying. It’s an old line, but a favourite one among us hearing-impaired people, because it points up how we “hear” with our eyes as surely as blind people “see” with their fingers or their ears.

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Taonga source:
NZ Herald
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1991-007
Bibliographic source:
NZ Herald, 28 September 1991, p.3
Author:
Peter Calder
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