Pavlov and the Book

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Mon Nov 4 09:18:12 CST 1996


Tom Stanton wrote:
> 
> Not an expert, but it appears TRP is making liberal use of Pavlov
> because B.F. Skinner's work on behavioralism doesn't really become
> current until after WW2.

...mebbe Pointsman is meant to be a parody of Skinner? Just how did 
BF spend the war anyway?

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



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