“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, August 25, 2011

Bobby George on Handedness

...while making curry just now I sliced enough off of the top of my right finger to require some gauze. So typing has suddenly become, shall we say, Vorhanden...

Bobby George has a marvelous post up about how simple it is to change one's mind, by changing the had one writes with. I am a lefty in any case and I wonder whether some of my weird ideas are simply from having had to negotiate my way around a right-handed world.

Unless you are left handed you just won't know this, but even something like screwing in a screw become a strange adventure. I find it easiest to do if I can turn what I'm screwing upside down for instance...

Mind is not something that lives in the “cabinet” of our heads, but something that is “out there” somehow.

1 comment:

Anthea Wilson said...

Being a lefty myself, I recognise the issues of living in a right-handed world. I like your use of the metaphor cabinet - not come across that before.