Left-handedness

[wolfinthewood]

"For know, Sancho, that for a man not to read, or to be left-handed, argues that either he was a son of mean parents, or so unhappy and untowardly that no good would prevail on him."

—Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547–1616)

from Don Quixote de la Mancha, Part II (1615)

trans. Thomas Shelton (1620)

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Comments

plaidder

[plaidder.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious.

I was ambidextrous until I was 5 and the teachers made me pick a hand to write with. I guess picking the left hand makes me untowardly.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

Re: plaidder

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

I am, of course, left handed myself. I was told when young that this showed a perverse nature - which is more or less exactly what Don Quixote means by 'untowardly'.