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Re: [DL] Old Man Withers



At 05:11 PM 1/4/00 , you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/4/00 4:58:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>baron11@netmcr.com writes:
>
><< E.B. Titchner, IMHO, would make a better antagonist. after all, his brain
>  is being stored at Cornell University for something...
>   >>
>
>      I'm not sure about this. Everyone knows who Freud is, and his celebrity
>value is part of the fun. Perhaps it's just that I don't know enough about
>famous psychologists, but I can't picture any posse screaming "Oh no! We're
>being attacked by the malevolent walking corpse of E.B. TITCHNER!!!" when
>they discover the identity of their adversary


granted...

just mentioning it as

a) he was famous in his time.

b)his picked brain is kept at a prestigious university

c) he has an ego the size of Texas and was "The Man" (as in keeping people 
down) in a scientific discipline

so I am merely mentioning him as a possibility.

TBS
not offended