Oo - is it open?

I embarrassed myself with a non-ironic use of 'hanky-panky' only the other day.

I think it's probably not the same person, but this is amazing nevertheless! But, has nobody told these funders about surrealism, dada, uncreative writing, etc?

I think he was actually thinking about self help books that have no scientific merit, of which there are more than several, I'd wager.

Interesting how bibliotherapy discourse is fairly thoroughly stripped of the idea of education that underpinned the 'improving' twentieth-century work of the WEA, community colleges, the OU, Birkbeck, Ruskin College, etc. The aura of the medical and the NHS as the welfare state's last stand.

This is great! Did I ever tell you about an experimental psychologist once suggesting to me that you could test bibliotherapy by getting people to read books with no active ingredients? My modernist mind was pleasingly boggled.

Very sad indeed to see some of these names.

and think quite deliberately as we talk: a hundred years ago I'd have been cleaning your shoes. I know this and you don't.'

'I will do everything and anything until the end of my days to stop anyone ever talking to me like that woman talked to my mother. It is in this place, this bare, curtainless bedroom that lies my secret and shameful defiance. I read a woman's book, meet such a woman at a party (a woman, now like me)

This does indeed seem very 'off brand' for you. Michael will be jealous, though.

No problem! I think it's really interesting.