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wolfinthewood) wrote2005-09-27 02:30 pm
wolfinthewood) wrote2005-09-27 02:30 pm
Left-handedness
"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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Re: Irony?
AS to the connection between untowardliness and reading, I'm inclined to suspect that it runs both ways. Certainly, I know of a great deal of ancedotal "evidence" that those who do not fit in the "real" world seek other, more aceepting or acceptable worlds in books. However, one would hope that a good dose of at least certain kinds of reading would promote untowardliness.