the diving bell and the butterfly book pages

Over the course of the entire book, I kept feeling a deep sense of gratitude for being alive and well. The book describes the challenges and frustrations of being trapped in a body which is technically still alive, but it forces you to question whether living that way is even living at all. This hadn’t actually been on my TBR pile but I picked this up near the end of December to complete my haul of 100 books in 2021. It took 200,000 blinks over 4 hours each day spanning a period of 10 months to finish the book. He dictated the entire book by blinking his left eyelid to choose a letter, while a transcriber recited a French language frequency-ordered alphabet(E, S, A, R, I, N, T, U, L, etc.). He decided to chronicle his thoughts and that’s how this book came to fruition. However, he was a journalist and it was not in his blood to keep new information hidden.

But the betrayal of his body meant he was helpless in expressing them. As the minutes dragged every day, Jean observed everything around him and had various thoughts and feelings about his condition. His own mind was trapped inside a motionless body, and he had no way of communicating with the outside world except for blinking his left eyelid.

Jean was left completely physically paralyzed, with the exception of his head and eyes which he could move a little. The book is a reflection on his life as he lay in coma after a massive stroke rendered him helpless with locked-in syndrome. Urn:oclc:869392551 Scandate 20110520204457 Scanner book is a memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the once editor-in-chief of the French magazine Elle. OL2713289W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 81.25 Pages 146 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0375401156 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:32:16 Boxid IA133216 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Rockland, MA Donor

The diving bell and the butterfly book pages