Talk:Millen Brand

Factual errors
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)

Some questions
Hi ,

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)


 * The characterization is contained in my article in the journal History of Psychology that I cite. This is a refereed journal and a group of referees plus the editor (Nadine Weidman, Harvard University historian of science) went over my article and I was required to change the text when I could not satisfy these outside referees.  My understanding is that Wikipedia is happy to accept summaries from published material if it is of good quality.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bh5unhedu (talk • contribs) 16:21, 15 November 2021 (UTC)


 * On further thought, I would suggest deleting "without comment" because I found a review today in The New Republic by the famous critic Malcolm Crowley that accepts the Freud but says that it's psychologically sound but "fictionally [too] neat". But I would not mind if the sentence would be removed as you suggested.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bh5unhedu (talk • contribs) 16:27, 15 November 2021 (UTC)


 * You're doing fine, ! Thank you! I leave it for you to proceed as the references that you cite guide you.


 * Please remember indent your replies with colons to create an easy-to-follow string and to sign your entries with ~ . Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 16:36, 15 November 2021 (UTC)