Nah, I don't mean graphology or some such thing that suggests correlation of personality traits with handwriting characteristics in any quantifiable way. That just seems like pseudoscience. I mean more like getting a sense of the circumstances and mood under which something was written, though admittedly that might call for familiarity with a person's writing over time. Failing that, I like to think we can form some idea of the person through the writing, though vague and based as much on the traits and mood of the reader as those of the writer. Certainly nothing as concrete as claimed in the handwriting analysis books. Maybe I didn't really say what I meant. Actually, it's the character of the writing itself rather than of the writer as expressed through the writing, that I may be thinking of. Glad to hear this has worked before. Off to class now.
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