IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Social scientists throughout history have occasionally noted
the enlargening of the left hand in the human male and
once posited that it was linked to a recondite mating ritual; Monk and nun in the stocks, Medieval art; minkpen; Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-
Conrat, 1909, Oskar Kokoschka; Nowadays the condition is believed to be
caused by artists working so long into the night
that they lose all contact with reality
