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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 00:08:42 EST
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- From: "David K. Stotz" <STOTZDK@DUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Lefty Bias
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- As a somewhat ambidextrous left-hander (I bat right handed and would
- play guitar that way naturally if I could play at all), I enjoyed a decided
- advantage over the rest of my high school gym class in fencing. This was
- because all my practice was against opponents whos weopons were on the same
- side of the body as my own, and because theirs was all against opponents
- whos weopons were across the body. (I was also fast, I must say :> ).
-
- During that class I felt a closer kinship than usual to my remote
- ancesters who were members of the Scottish Clan Kerr, who were noted (and
- still are for all I know) for the unusually high proportion of left-handers
- in the family. In fact,left-handedness was so much a part of their lives
- that they built their spiral staircases with the spirals in the opposite
- direction from the usual spiral staircase. This made it easier to defend their
- castles, because they could reach better around the corners with their sword
- hands while descending the stairs fighting off invaders. On the other hand,
- this might have made it easier for a right handed enemy to fight on the way
- up, but I guess you are already at a disadvantage fighting a lefty!
-
- Sinistrally yours, Dave Stotz, Drexel, Philadephia.
-
- P.S. - I am onof three left-handers in a family of five.
-