Freud

[Alina Israeli]

Just this week's cover story of Newsweek (March 27) is on Sigmund 
Freud, and it is authored appropriately by someone named Adler. So 
our discussion is very a propos.

But to follow up on Slivkin's point, all the pre-firearm literature 
is full of swashbuckling, all the 100 (or so) volumes of Dumas-pere, 
for example. It makes for drama and excitement, like all the murders 
and car chases of the 20th century. Someone wrote that in Oxford 
there is one murder every ten years while by the Colin Dexter's books 
it's about 10 murders a year, or something like that. Maybe the same 
statistic is true for the duels, particularly in the pre-firearms 
days.
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Alina Israeli
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Washington, DC 20016

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