You mean... there are no shrinks in the Beyond? In that case, neither I nor, one imagines, any of my Upper West Side neighbors has the slightest interest in going there.
Coincidentally, my SO and I were now just sitting around, over a glass of 'umble claret, speculating to our own vast amusement about what our kids would be saying on the couch twenty years hence. I offered the observation that psychoanalysis is like a graduate degree -- part of the expected CV -- and she responded, accurately I think, No, it's more like having a gym membership. Score one for the SO.
So I hope Ellen Willis is now in analysis with old Sigmund himself. Probably they're not getting along, at all -- but don't you think they're both having a whale of a time?
-- --Michael J. Smith --mjs at smithbowen.net
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