I think it would be

by Billectric

Posted to Utterances on 2002-12-01 14:44:00

Parent message is 331480
very difficult to do, but not impossible. The average reader would have a hard time resisting the urge to retain their ability. Like a person trying sink into a swimming pool to drown but coming up for air by blind instinct.

Let us suppose the subject has experienced some severe trauma associated with reading, such as the soldier’s wife reading the death telegram, or an ego-maniacal political candidate reading of his campaign’s demise in the morning paper; and there is no limit to what the subconscious can do.
People lose their sight when they see something too horrible to deal with; so could they lose their ability to analyze vowell and syllable.



Indeed.