bare
l-powerful. I could read.
What that word was on the billboard I no longer know, but the
impression of being able to comprehend what before I could only look at is
as vivid today as it must have been then. It was like having an entirely
new sense, so that now certain things no longer consisted of what my eyes
could see, my ears could hear, and so on, but of what my whole body could
catch, translate, give voice to, read.