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...After 20 years of reading paperbacks on psychology, I feel qualified to offer my analysis of cigar smokers. Smokers are immature people who have never been completely weaned...
...Sister George, in a sentimentally bucolic radio serial about a small English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...
...girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...
Such extravagant interpretations were put in their place by Freud himself who, so the story goes, once started a conference by lighting a stogie and announcing: "This may be a phallus, but, gentlemen, let us remember it is also a cigar." Says Philip Solomon, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard: "Almost everything is straight and narrow or rounded and curved. To apply genital meanings to all these things is ridiculous...
Then, of course, it is also possible that a computer is just a computer, even as a cigar is just a cigar...