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King Pleasure: King Pleasure Sings the Freudian Slips Songbook

Read "King Pleasure Sings the Freudian Slips Songbook" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 1, 2025

In 1951 in Vienna, a graduate school psychology student and amateur harpist doing work on Freud literally stumbled upon a handful of torn-edged music manuscript papers of the legendary psychiatrist. Recognizing what could be a major historical discovery, the student carefully peeled the sheets individually and, looking around for cameras and other crime-watchers, made off with the slips of paper. After verifying the source by comparing the writing with Freud's sketches, she immediately brought the papers to one Clarence Beeks, ...

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Another Story

by Matthew Michael Sweeney
November 6, 2021

Spencer said, “This is going to make you very angry, but you need to go the bathroom right now and smile into the mirror. Just remember I'm doing this because I love you very much. Don't talk to or look at anybody until you do that." They stood facing each other, Spencer and Diane, very close together, in the sprawling kitchen of her parent's ranch house overlooking the choppy rain and wind-swept waters of Lake Martin. Across the ...