Re: yet more on dysthymic dicks
Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:32:28 -0500
At 06:33 PM 3/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On the CRACKER TV series: does anyone know the title of the episode in which
>Fitz and the Manchester police are trying to track down a serial rapist, who
>turns out to be a Jamaican expatriate, self-scarred in his youth with lye in
>an attempt to become "whiter"?
>
>On the depressed detective: I remember reading many years ago that Kenneth
>Millar (Ross MacDonald), author of the Lew Archer series, had undergone a
>psychological crisis in his thirties -- probably depressive -- was analyzed
>successfully, and that the Archer novels thereafter owe their Oedipal thrust,
>wrestling with contested paternity and paternal abandonment to the author's
>personal crisis and its resolution. Anyone know more about this, including
>sourcing?
>
>Many thanks
>
>HR Greenberg MD
>
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I'm not sure about this, but could it be "To Be Somebody"?
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