The Romance and Heartbreak of Writing in a Language Not Your Own

> disconcerting ability to write backward with her left hand while writing forward with her right.

I remember sitting in a meeting fascinatedly watching a Japanese colleague take notes in English with his left hand -- because in Japan there is such a bias against left-handedness. That was interesting enough, but when the meeting would switch into Japanese he'd the his notes in Japanese with his right hand.

He spoke clearly without a stammer.

Anyone know more stories from Carrington's life? I love this one!

"As the most famous Carrington story goes, she once cut off the hair of a much loathed houseguest in the middle of the night and served it to him in an omelet in the morning."