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Article: Living from word to word Columnist Brian Dickinson refuses to let Lou Gehrig's disease rob him of his work
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 16, 1995
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WARWICK, R.I. -- "Hello! How are you? I feel more independent."
The baritone greeting slices sharply through the silence of the
bright and comfortable suburban living room. It is unmistakably a
machine's voice, but it is also Brian Dickinson's voice, computer and
man linked together out of illness and necessity. Seated in his
wheelchair in a corner, silently facing his Compaq Presario 486 as
the afternoon sun splashes over him through a nearby window,
Dickinson is doing what he knows and does best: writing.
"i'm lucky i am able to keep at it," he types noiselessly, the
white sentence ever so slowly materializing on the black screen. (He
has, for the moment, shut down the voice synthesizer ...