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there are two factual errors iuthor's note n this article: in mr. brands author's note, in his book local lives he states, "In 1940,after a boyhood in New Jersey and many years in New York City, I began living on Crow Hill above Bally, Pennsylvania..." wiki's entry on bally pennsylvania places it in Berks County not Bucks County as cited in the current text. Two paragraphs later he states, "My family had left Pennsylvania with my great-grandfather Myers ..." and millen therefore had not lived earlier in life in Pennsylvania as stated in the current text. 71.220.77.148 ( talk) 03:24, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Bh5unhedu,
I assume that the source cited used the word, "eccentric", referring to Joe Gould, since you restored my deletion of that characterization.
I notice an odd, unsourced statement, "Although Harriet’s illness was caused by childhood trauma and an Electra complex––resolved on the final page of the book––this Freudian subplot was accepted by readers and critics without comment", which appears to be your own assessment, rather than that of a published source. Am I wrong? How do we know that there is an "Electra complex" involved, whether this pertains to Freud, whether readers consciously accepted these attributes, and whether critics failed completely to comment on the same? It seems more appropriate to delete what appears to be WP:OR and WP:POV, and start the next paragraph with, "What critics praised the description of a man and woman sheltering each other and trying to connect in the midst of the Depression, as beautiful writing."
Cheers, HopsonRoad ( talk) 03:58, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
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there are two factual errors iuthor's note n this article: in mr. brands author's note, in his book local lives he states, "In 1940,after a boyhood in New Jersey and many years in New York City, I began living on Crow Hill above Bally, Pennsylvania..." wiki's entry on bally pennsylvania places it in Berks County not Bucks County as cited in the current text. Two paragraphs later he states, "My family had left Pennsylvania with my great-grandfather Myers ..." and millen therefore had not lived earlier in life in Pennsylvania as stated in the current text. 71.220.77.148 ( talk) 03:24, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Bh5unhedu,
I assume that the source cited used the word, "eccentric", referring to Joe Gould, since you restored my deletion of that characterization.
I notice an odd, unsourced statement, "Although Harriet’s illness was caused by childhood trauma and an Electra complex––resolved on the final page of the book––this Freudian subplot was accepted by readers and critics without comment", which appears to be your own assessment, rather than that of a published source. Am I wrong? How do we know that there is an "Electra complex" involved, whether this pertains to Freud, whether readers consciously accepted these attributes, and whether critics failed completely to comment on the same? It seems more appropriate to delete what appears to be WP:OR and WP:POV, and start the next paragraph with, "What critics praised the description of a man and woman sheltering each other and trying to connect in the midst of the Depression, as beautiful writing."
Cheers, HopsonRoad ( talk) 03:58, 15 November 2021 (UTC)