“Unlocking Perception: Discover the Hidden Depths of Sight in Naomi Cohn’s Intriguing Braille Encyclopedia”
In the essay “Code,” Cohn considers how the history of braille has affected her writing and influenced her voice and style. She writes:
In developing his system, Louis Braille was inspired by a military code of raised dots for passing notes. Night writing, they called it. […] Something the enemy cannot hear. Writing in the dark, in a code almost no one understands, has freed up my writing in ways I did not expect. Braille conceals. Chances are the bumps that mean symbols and words to me mean nothing to you. Or mean something else — mystery, curiosity? Something opens up in the place of concealment. In the silence of the braille cell, I write what I would never put into print (20).
