A bit sinister

 First published in Column 8 on the 29th May,1991

 

My left-handed relative and I (she in her pre-war gumboots,of course), were recently out in the sun sawing up wood.

While we stopped for a cuppa her eye caught a report by aCanadian professor regarding left-handed people in an old newspaper.

Reading it, my relative thought his statements smacked ofLeftism, a form of prejudice at least as old as racism, and possibly older.

“Just look at the words he uses,” she said. “Sinister, and macabre...