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...person's simple ability to touch his own face. Why worry about getting your eyebrows and facial hair stuck in an uncomfortable mirror? But then at the bottom of the frame we notice a key to the piece, its title embossed in backwards letters, like the "mirror writing" in Da Vinci's notebook. "Blind Mirror" enables a blind subject to experience the alterity and reversal of a normal glass mirror. The body is "seen" outside itself and reversed, not from left to right, but from positive form to impression...
...Disappointment': My parole officer tol me if I miss disappointment they gonna send me back to da big house...
...Hotel': I gave my girlfriend da crabs and the hotel everybody...
...office is rather modest, sparsely decorated and filled with standard-issue furniture. The biggest piece of art is a huge photo of a Pentium processor chip. There are smaller pictures of Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Henry Ford, though he admits that he has little admiration for the latter. The few personal pictures include one of the original dozen Microsoft employees (most with scruffy beards, except him), one of Ann Winblad on a trip to Germany, and one with Melinda and nine friends on a 1995 vacation to Indonesia. There are no pictures of Jennifer displayed, but he pulls...
When his father sent for the family, a seriousness came over Da-i. The 12-year-old packed his own bags and stayed awake throughout the flight to watch over his mother and his younger brother. They were traveling to a land they did not know and whose language they did not speak. It would be a place where they would receive new names and new identities. Their father, a devout Christian who now called himself Paul, had picked the boys' American names from the Bible. Thus it came to pass that Ho Da-i became David...