10 Works of Literature That Were Really Hard to Write

[babylonsister]

Found on FB; thought this might interest you. Or not. :)

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/76496

[Fire1]

1. I thought "War and Peace" might be among them. n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. Interesting works! Christy Brown's "My Left Foot" wasn't on the list but

perhaps should've been. The book by Jean-Dominique Bauby "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" seems the most amazing, that it ever got written. It makes me think of the aid to Stephen Hawking who could tell what Hawking was saying, and speak for him (before the synthesizer)

My own father wrote with a pen between his toes - he had been born without arms- and it was very difficult for most people to decipher his 'footwriting'. He spoke his graduate thesis to a fast typist to compose it. Later he used Dictaphones transcribed by secretaries for all his writing and correspondence.

It is amazing what humans - and the human spirit - are capable!

Thanks, babylonsister, for posting this.