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Auden assimilated Marx and Freud, yet eventually became the kind of arch-poetic witness to a disarming, irony proof piety that a secular age requires. The fact that a cursory reader may feel he has been here before is not a problem. It is the whole point. Before abandoning his verses to history, Auden liked to be sure that, whatever their message, each one sounded as if it could only have been written by W.H. Auden. Everything in Thank You, Fog qualifies. As with saved letters from lost sons or fathers, so with the last words of this dead poet...
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...interest in the drug was scientific, not sensual," you say referring to Sigmund Freud and his interest in cocaine [Jan. 6]. That is correct...
...knew my uncle well. (He was my mother's brother and he married my father's sister.) Freud's attitudes and actions have often been distorted by his detractors, the ignorant and the prejudiced. In fact, his character was impeccable, unimpeachable. He was warm, sympathetic, compassionate...
...time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who injects a "seven-per-cent solution" at the opening of The Sign of the Four, was supposedly a cocaine freak. A new book appropriately titled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution even has Holmes lured to Vienna, where Freud helps him kick the habit...