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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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

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

I am also left handed (as is glaurung_quena).

I'm quessing that enough reading must overcome everything except the untowardliness, which Cervantes failed to realise is actually a good thing. ;-)