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Some people like to be read to and other people do not.

Until the age of six my eldest daughter enjoyed hearing novels read aloud. Then she didn’t like novels at all. Then, at the age of ten, she started reading them to herself, silently, in her head.

I heard somewhere that Jorge Luis Borges, whose progressive blindness reached maturation at age fifty-five, thirty years before his death, had a rotating crew of young people who read to him at the library in his mother’s home in Buenos Aires.

Some critics feel that Borges’s blindness prompted him to develop intricate, imaginative worlds.

Such is the double bind of the mythologized blind: unseeing and all-seeing at once.

If my daughter reads silently in her head, then where does Borges read in the voices of young readers?