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Naturally left-handed? Suddenly left-handed (due
to injury or accident)? Teaching handwriting to
lefties at home or in school ... and not sure how
to help them get it "write"? Consider Left
Hand Writing Skills from Robin's Wood Press
of England, the handwriting book/CD-ROM series
written for left-handers young and grown. For
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Fiction related to
handwriting
 INFINITISSIMO: THE MAN WHO
FELL THROUGH TIME by Holly-Jane
Rahlens (Published in German as EVERLASTING:
DER MANN, DER AUS DER ZEIT FIEL) — set in a
future North America, and future and present-day Europe
— has been described as "science fiction for lovers." It
could equally well be called "a love story whose truths
are stranger than science fiction." Its hero, Finn
Nordstrom, is a young historian specializing in a
long-vanished culture — our own — as one of the very few
specialists who can decipher an ancient
information-transmission method known as "handwriting."
Handwriting, pens, and even books of any sort are museum
pieces by Finn's time: information is stored and managed
by computerized brain-implants.
When Finn is assigned to study the diary of an early
21st-century teenage girl, he becomes absorbed by the
strange world it presents: a world he eventually visits
— falling in love with the diary's author — when
physicists create a method for time-travel and encourage
him to test it out. "Falling through time" (first
through his studies, then through actual experience),
Finn experiences the perplexities of our era from the
vantage-point of his own society: a placid, comfortable
culture which has conquered many of our present woes —
but at what cost?
Over the centuries, we learn, Finn's people have lost
far more than just the written word. Romantic love — and
even the pronouns "I," "me," "my," and "mine" — were
abolished, some centuries before Finn's birth, as
dangerous and anti-social. (Finn refers to himself as
"this man" or "this historian" or "this friend,"
depending on the situation. When he realizes he must
change this, in order to communicate properly during his
21st-century adventures, he feels almost as if he is
required to employ some bizarre ancient term of abuse.)
Finding — and falling in love with — the diary's author
as she grows from a girl into a young woman, Finn only
gradually suspects that his assigned research has a
larger purpose than mere historical study. What is the
physics institute really after? What haven't
they been telling Finn Nordstrom?
This
unusual and intricately plotted work has so far
been published only in one country (Germany), where it
is steadily gathering readers from the romance, SF,
young adult, and contemporary fiction markets. As a
crossover romance with an American hero, it holds
great potential for an American publisher — and would
do even better as a summer blockbuster film.
OTHER BOOKS ON HANDWRITING, CALLIGRAPHY, AND RELATED
TOPICS:
(iv)non-book resources
Disney Corporation.
Writing: Plain & Fancy.
n.d., n.p., 20 minutes.
Getty,
Barbara and Dubay, Inga. Write
Now: The Video.
Portland (Oregon): Portland State University/
Continuing Education Press, 1996. 120 minutes.
Jarman,
Christopher.
"Development of Handwriting Skills" CD-ROM
(n.d.)
Maier,
Art.
"Italic Handwriting" Chart.
n.d.: Fulton (Missouri): Art Maier (509 East 9th
Street, Fulton, MO 65251).
Maier,
Art.
"Penmanship,"
regularly in Pen World
magazine
(Kingwood, TX: World Publications.)
McAllister, Cloyd
N.
"Researches on Movements Used in Writing,"
Studies From Yale Psychological Laboratory, volume 8
(1900), pages 21-63.
Cambridge (Massachusetts): Yale University Press.
Myers, Prue Wallis.
"Hand-Made Writing,"
in Handwriting Review, volume 6 (1992), pages 13-19.
Cheshire (England): Handwriting Interest Group.
Robison, James A.
"A Fine Italic Hand,"
in Elementary School Principal, January 1980, pages
81-86.
Woodworth, Robert
Sessions, "The Accuracy of Voluntary Movement,"
in Psychological Review Monograph Supplement, volume
3, number 13 (1899). Boston (Massachusetts): Harvard
University Press.
For additional current FREE and inexpensive
handwriting-help resources, including
Internet sites with downloadable worksheet-sets,
e-mail
me -
the SUBJECT-line of your e-mail needs to include the
following words:
"handwriting resource list"
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