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to mystic institute.org. Let's suppose that you're sitting at your desk, writing sentences

in your notebook using a pen.

There's no desks here, unfortunately, but you can imagine doing this.

Your action of writing words includes forming their components, the letters.

Sometimes your penstrokes will neatly form the words that you are writing, but other

times they'll just be off. Your penstroke might go too far below the line, producing tails

on your Fs that unduly interfere with the words on the next line. Or they might go too high,

producing ungainly lowercase letters that stick above the midpoint

of the line.

Other times you will hastily dot your eyes so that the dots are placed above adjacent letters,

or cross your T's such that the crossbars fail to intersect with their stems.

Alas, this description is a fair characterization of how far my own script handwriting

has degenerated since Mrs. Cravello taught me in the second grade. I do have one consolation,

which is that I am more and more being conformed to my patron Thomas Aquinas in his own illegible

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