![]() The imagination is unbounded, with Bauby drawing from his vast treasures of journalistic experience. It is the flight of imagination, mixed with memories, dreams, wit, and wit laced sarcasm. It is a very disconnected memoir of a man who has room only as wide as his cranium living, and yet, a space as large as the world around us to live in. The language is short, elegant and unhurried making it seem like an easy read. ![]() The shortest chapter is barely 151 words! (Yes, I counted it). For me, it was a travel read, barely 150 pages of a comfortable font size and plenty of margins. The chapters don't necessarily have any chronological order and may be read in any fashion. The book is a short read comprising of several memories, notes, and dreams dreamt in this phase, divided into short chapters. ![]() This book, which he dictated letter-by-letter, is a memoir of his imprisoned mind, and its attempts to fly in the realm of mental space. ![]() Jean-Dominique Bauby, noted for his wit and gregariousness and as the editor of the famous French magazine Elle, suffered a massive stroke that imprisoned his mind in a cellar of his skull with only his left eye functioning as a medium to interact with the outside world. ![]()
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