Diving Bell and Butterfly

Billie 2022-04-19 09:01:59

I read this true story in the big mirror of the barber shop. As an ELLE editor, he originally had a sensitive heart for discovering beauty, but the only eye left after the stroke to communicate with the outside world made his vision more unique.

It did take a bit of patience at first, getting the eyes to adjust to the blurry and shaky footage that was his eyes.

The scene that shocked me the most was when he saw his left eyelid being sewn stitch by stitch, his field of vision getting smaller and smaller until the last ray of light disappeared.

The dialogue that moved me the most was that he successfully said the first sentence with a laborious spelling method: I want to die. The female therapist burst into tears and said angrily: How can you say that, so many people who love you have not given up... Then she left the room and closed the door, but soon the door opened again, and she came back to ask He apologized.

The most subtle emotion is when his lover calls him and his ex-wife helps him spell out what he wants to say: I am waiting for you every day. While weeping, I told my lover, and the lover on the other end of the phone also cried.

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly quotes

  • Jean-Dominique Bauby: We're all children, we all need approval.

  • Jean-Dominique Bauby: A poet once said, "Only a fool laughs when nothing's funny"