March 21, 2015
Tags: 84 Charing Cross Road, Bletchley Park, Charles De Gaulle, French resistance, Leo Marks, Marks and Co, S.O.E., Sigmund Freud, Sir Colin Gubbins, Special Operations Executive, The life that I have, Violette Szabo, WOK
I’ve been having World War II at my house for the last several months: the war as seen through the eyes of the French Resistance. I’ve read so many biographies of spies that I am beginning to get them all mixed up. One book I am not likely to ever forget, however, is called Between Read the Rest…
August 14, 2012
Tags: obsession, Pandarus, Sigmund Freud, Troilus and Cressida, Whitman College
When I was an English major at Whitman College we used to say “a done paper is a good paper.” That wasn’t true and neither is all well that ends well. I found this to be a sour play with a depressing ending a wee bit too close to home. When it opens, we meet Read the Rest…
May 5, 2011
Tags: Law and Order Criminal Intent, O Promise Me, Sigmund Freud, W.H.Auden
Here’s a cheap trick: I’ve learned that traffic on my blog shoots up when I have a titillating title. Now you’re here, you might as well hear what I have to say about Sigmund Freud because his birthday was May 6, 1856. He no longer has that much to do with the way analysis is Read the Rest…