A further recovery from a past blog: on reassessing the left-hand side. "If the soul is looking into eternity with its right eye, the left eye must cease all its undertakings and act as if it were dead," counsels the Theologica Germanica that was published by Martin Luther in 1516. It was a sentiment with a history as James Hall painstakingly demonstrates in his 'The Sinister Side: How left-right Symbolism shaped Western Art'. The right is robust, righteous and of God's otherworldly part, the left is weak, vulnerable, and sensuously attached to the transient world. Thus, does Christ die looking to his right, right foot folded over left, with the good thief destined for paradise at his right side, the wound dispatching him plunged into this side, dispatching the redemptive blood into the world to the right... When He returns in judgment, the saved stand stiffly to attention at his right hand, attendant on heaven, the damned are judged with his left hand that sends ...