Graphical Analysis

[L Verge]

I have always wanted to have my handwriting analyzed. I'm bragging here, but I have very nice, clear handwriting and have received numerous compliments on it since elementary school. However, it sometimes depends on the mood that I'm in as to how my style is on any given day.

99% of the time, my words are in forehand (slightly slanted to the right), but when I'm agitated, they go to backhand or literally stand straight up. When I'm feeling great and "full of myself," I write in larger script -- when depressed, in smaller and tighter formation. I generally like to put flourishes in my signature with some curlicues on the "L" and the "V." All of these styles just come as I write at any particular time. I don't concentrate on how I write, I just sit down and write.

I just bet that a few of you on this forum are now thinking that their suspicions about me have been confirmed. I'm a psycho!

The article that Steve posted mentioned the study of phrenology. I can't remember the details, but somewhere there is mention of an informal phrenology analysis being made on Dr. Mudd during the trial. Can someone locate this source?

Addendum: One judge was an amateur phrenologist and condemned Mudd because he found a "bump of secrecy on his skull," Ms. Chapelle said. That judge later wrote that his decision was made in part because Samuel Mudd "had the appearance of a natural-born liar."

Ms. Chapelle is a great-great-granddaughter of Dr. Sam and brought this out during the 1990s fight to clear the doctor's name. The judge who said this in 1865 was Gen. Thomas Harris. The full quote is in Blood on the Moon, but the online site won't let me cut and paste.