Re: about that "left" buisiness
Pierrot65@aol.com
Mon, 31 May 1999 00:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
For quite a while, I've been ... well, I've been lazily searching out a sort
of primer for the metaphorical significance of left vs. right-handedness, if
that makes sense, for my own character. I should say very lazily searching.
What does being left-handed represent, in terms of lit-criticism? The only
things I could think of, off the top of my own head and in my own experience:
Left is "sinister" in Latin.
Left-handers are, allegedly, statistically, more "creative" or
right-brained than righties, irony be damned.
Left-handed pitchers in baseball have long been considered very weird
creatures.
A left-hander is a "southpaw" in English boxing and baseball
parlance.
I would greatly appreciate more thoughts on this. I have a feeling that the
reinstated M. Bowman could help with the psychology of this, as he did with
the green ink controversy. I know the great prolific gasbag, S. Freud, must
have had something to say about this somewhere, no?
Rick