Sample Two.
The size and legibility of this writing indicates what
experts would call a ‘“difficult” type’. Such a person is likely to be called
‘Garth’, or ‘Jeremy’, and will probably be very particular about their feet,
and the ordering of their socks.
The slight widening of the left hand margin in
conjunction with the subtly rising slope of the lines suggests an impatient
optimism; such a writer is likely to have a high level of competency in
crossing busy streets.
The rare and erratic linking is indicative of quite slow
writing. Slow and careful writing is often synonymous with slow and careful thinking;
however, the lack of velocity in this writer’s work is more likely to stem from
a preoccupation with
Big Caslon
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Cochin
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Didot
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Hoefler Text
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Minion Pro
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Palatino
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Plantagenet
Cherokee
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Please write.
He writes from Melbourne
and says
that the beer is expensive
and nothing much else.
He spells love
L-U-V
and says
that the beer is expensive
and nothing much else.
He spells love
L-U-V
Later he will say ‘I’m going.’
and she will ask him to buy milk.
‘No, I’m going.’
She will be holding his baby.
‘Then go.’
and she will ask him to buy milk.
‘No, I’m going.’
She will be holding his baby.
‘Then go.’
Next time she marries
she plans do it for money.
There will be a garden
and gardener
and her mother’s promise
that if she studied hard
she’d never have to clean
her own toilet
will come true.
she plans do it for money.
There will be a garden
and gardener
and her mother’s promise
that if she studied hard
she’d never have to clean
her own toilet
will come true.
He is young
and balding and says
that he keeps all of his money
in his car, which is red
and called ‘the beast’.
and balding and says
that he keeps all of his money
in his car, which is red
and called ‘the beast’.
She has a son
and daughter
and he calls that
a ready-made family.
and daughter
and he calls that
a ready-made family.
None of his relatives come to the wedding.
Before light happens, the way it does
when you read all night
until the tungstens fade
against the glow from the curtains,
she gets out of bed into shoes
and bike shorts.
when you read all night
until the tungstens fade
against the glow from the curtains,
she gets out of bed into shoes
and bike shorts.
It will still be dark when
a man asks to take her bike
and she says it isn’t any good,
that it broke when she fell.
a man asks to take her bike
and she says it isn’t any good,
that it broke when she fell.
The shock wears off
on a white leather couch
that she tries not to bleed on
while an ambulance drives up
the same hill that she didn’t make it down.
on a white leather couch
that she tries not to bleed on
while an ambulance drives up
the same hill that she didn’t make it down.
Her name is Meg
but that could change.
Those clear lines and
backwards letters
and not the kind
that learn themselves
at school in notebooks
with large lines
and room for pictures.
These are the re-learntbut that could change.
Those clear lines and
backwards letters
and not the kind
that learn themselves
at school in notebooks
with large lines
and room for pictures.
letters of someone
who has forgotten
how to write and speak
and look in the mirror.
His name is Jack or Jasper. The lines have the upward
slope of impatient optimism. He clicks his bitten nails without realising and
checks his watch three times without reading the time. The clumsy attempt at
speed indicates a certain bumbliness in his mannerisms, a kind of skipping
swagger when he walks.
His dominant middle zone shows that he is concerned with
the present. This, in conjunction with the sharpened accent of his dot on the ‘i’,
often an indication of sarcasm, suggests he has children, maybe 2 or 3, and a
strong aversion to large domestic animals such as Labradors and cows.
He goes to the park on Wednesday when he is supposed to
be at work, he climbs a tree and reads a book about children and divorce. The
tree climbing part is because of the Labradors. There are three of them. One is
lying by the swings pretending it is ‘man’s best friend’ or whatever, ‘small-girl-with-pigtails’ best friend’ by the
looks of things. The other two are being kept preoccupied with sticks over by
the sports field.
He turns back to the section on ‘Imaginary Problems’
apparently this is one of the biggest problems with divorce. ‘Imaginary
Problems’. For a moment Jack/Jasper feels relieved. Then he remembers waking up
the night before around 4am thinking that the sound of someone on the stairs
outside the apartment was his ex coming to take back the kids, since it was her day. He barely relaxed when the footsteps continued past his door and
up another level to the flat above.
GWRC Co-ordinator
34 Chapel Street
Masterton
NEW ZEALAND
Frances or Francis
is likely to forget Christmas as s/he is holed up with a good book, s/he will
end up eating a packet of honey roasted peanuts and a can of tinned tomatoes
because all of the shops are closed, and s/he doesn’t believe in having food in
the house.
The extremely
vertical lettering is a strong indication that Frances/Francis is particular to
the point of being OCD. This writer can be recognised in person by their very
neat eyebrows and tendency to wear oversized men’s cloths (regardless of
gender).
This is an example
of what we call ‘artistic printing’ and in this instance is a strong indication
that Frances (for the sake of communication) plays an instrument, either the clarinet
or the bongos. She was once part of a progressive jazz band that played songs
about the impact of capitalism on the lives of small rodents.
The backwards letters, which are obviously a symptom of
dyslexia, can in this sample (due to the intense care evident in their
formation) be seen as a sign that the writer has very bad teeth, though she
always remembers to floss, alternatively this could be an indication that she
is (or was) a teacher, probably of maths or speech therapy.
Council Offices
101 Wakefield Street
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Chris (male or female, for the sake of clarity
I will treat this writer as male) hates goodbyes. This is evidenced by the
garland stroke at the end of most of the words of this sample. Chris will not
go to the train station and wave a handkerchief for his departing lover who has
their nose pressed up to the window and a single tear rolling down their cheek.
He will be at home boiling potatoes and reading about atrocities from ten years
ago in an attempt to gain perspective.
Chris is a slow, careful thinker, as can be
seen in his neat, slow writing, the pressure of which suggests he makes a
conscious effort to be in control. Goodbyes frazzle him, they make him feel that
he is not in control. The potatoes he is boiling are Yukon Gold potatoes
because they are the very best for mashing, and Chris needs to mash some
potatoes. The Yukon Golds were chosen for their similar size and have each been
fastidiously peeled. Chris has made mashed potatoes once a week since he left
home, but he still follows a recipe, he enjoys consistency. Once the Yukon
Golds can be easily stabbed he drains them and dries them in a skillet on the
stove. He is thinking about rolling the boiled potatoes in sand and then
mashing them. How nice they could look all grainy like that, the gritty feeling
between his teeth. The milk he adds to the potatoes (now off the stove and
cubed) is warmed, to avoid gumminess. He begins to mash. While Chris’s writing
shows control, there is also repetition of form that suggests that, all worked
up over his lover, who by now must be asleep with their head against the train
window, dreaming of frogs, he will become stuck in the mashing motion and end
up with liquid potatoes.
The size of his writing can suggest a certain
level of introversion, maybe Chris will decide to stop with the hellos in order
to avoid the goodbyes.
GWRC Field Operator
34 Chapel Street
Masterton
NEW ZEALAND
The unconscious capitalisation at the start of every line
suggests an obsession with traditional poetry. This writer is in her late teens
and is probably called Catherine (with a ‘C’ not a ‘K’, as is evidenced by the
attention paid to the one ‘C’ in the sample). The open letters is a sign that
Catherine (never Cat or Cathy) knowingly provokes people, and probably has a
number of siblings; the fact that these openings are also present at the tops
of letters indicates she is also talkative.
Catherine collects places.
Harbour City Tow & Salvage
59 Hutt Road
Thorndon
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Alex is leaving. Just for the
process of it. The packing up, the throwing away, the moving out. She left a
handkerchief and a note for Chris to meet her at the station. She wanted to be
waved off, to have the goodbyes part of leaving. She didn’t have to take the
train, if she hadn’t wanted to see Chris running down the platform waving the
specially provided handkerchief she would have gone by plane instead. And now
she is stuck staring at a Chris-less platform , crowded with high school
children and the elderly.
The baseline of this writing
sample is quite erratic, an indication of a person who strays between reality
and unreality with abandon. She is
fixated with the process and appearance of things, constantly playing out
senarios with the people around her. This, afterall, is what the leaving is
about. Kind of like wading out into deep
water at dusk, but without the drowning part that would inevitably follow. She
imagines wading along the ocean floor, her clothes and hair swirling around
her, before emerging in the shallows of some other continent, walking
unfaltering up the beach.
Alex is fixated with the process and appearance of
things, this can be seen in her attention to appearance over speed in her
writing, the majority of her effort is put into loops over communication. Such
a writer is liable to take hours to get dress. Coupled with the
exaggeration of the ‘C’ at the start of
the second paragraph, which is evidence of her obsession with faerie tales, it
becomes apparent that Alex ------ within
her own life.
Alex
is leaving. Just for the process of it. The packing up, the throwing away, the
moving out. She left a handkerchief and a note for Chris to meet her at the
station. She wanted to be waved off, to have the goodbyes part of leaving. She
didn’t have to take the train, if she hadn’t wanted to see Chris running down
the platform waving the specially provided handkerchief she would have gone by
plane instead. And now she was stuck staring at a Chris-less platform , crowded
with high school children and the elderly.
Cricket Wellington Incorporated
The Brierley Pavilion
Allied Nationwide Finance Basin Reserve
PO Box 578
New Zealand
Cricket Wellington Incorporated
PO Box 578
New Zealand
Alex is leaving. Just for the
process of it. The packing up, the throwing away, the moving out. She left a
handkerchief and a note for Chris to meet her at the station. She wanted to be
waved off, to have the goodbyes part of leaving. She didn’t have to take the
train, if she hadn’t wanted to see Chris running down the platform waving the
specially provided handkerchief she would have gone by plane instead. And now
she is stuck staring at a Chris-less platform , crowded with high school
children and the elderly.
The baseline of this writing
sample is quite erratic, an indication of a person who strays with abandon
between reality and unreality. She is
constantly playing out scenarios with the people around her. This, after all,
is what the leaving is about. Kind of
like wading out into deep water at dusk, but without the drowning part that
would inevitably follow. She imagines wading along the ocean floor, her clothes
and hair swirling around her, before emerging in the shallows of some other
continent, walking unfaltering up the beach.
Maybe she does need Chris around
to remind her of things like oxygen and hypothermia. She leans her head against
the train window, closes her eyes, and dreams about being dragged under water
by a giant frog who speaks with a lisp.
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