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Subject: Re: into the looking glass
From: James Stroud jstroud {- at -} MBI {- dot -} UCLA {- dot -} EDU
Date: 2008-04-01

On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:52 PM, James Holton wrote:
> I myself am a left-handed human, and I admit I do find some devious
> pleasure in this "reversal of fortunes". Perhaps it is some deep-
> seated suppressed anger from my days in kindergarten searching
> through piles of scissors for those few "lefty" ones that the
> oppressive "rightist" majority tossed into the pile to placate us.

Even the lefties are envied by the ambidextrous. We don't know what
hand we are at something until we try to do it. In kindergarten I was
branded as "left handed" because that's how I held a pencil.
Unfortunately, for cutting, it was the opposite. I was much older when
I realized why those left handed scissors they gave me never worked so
well--I was trying to use them with the wrong dang hand.

If the ambidextrous had our way, the chirality of biological molecules
would all be racemic. That would be true justice.

James

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