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11/22/2001 Entry: "22-Nov-2001 -- A Plea for the Horizontally Organized"

A Plea for the Horizontally Organized -- "There is nothing intrinsically disabling about being left-handed, but when the world is organized for right-handers, it can be a real handicap. Consider the chairs one finds in university lecture halls, with little fold up desktops on the right side for taking notes. A left-hander has to write with the left elbow dangling in mid-air, or turn all squeezed around in her seat, with her elbow where the right-hander puts the notebook and her notebook on the narrow back of the desk where the right-hander puts his elbow."

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Aren't the lecture-hall seats on the left-hand side of the hall usually set for lefthanders? I know I've encountered such when I was at college.

Posted by Anita Rowland @ 11/24/2001 04:43 PM EST

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