The Case of Little Albert

Murthy Yenamandra yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Sun Oct 10 10:07:46 CDT 1999


Paul Mackin writes:
> It's what gave Dr. Lazlo Jamf the idea for Infant Tyrone--p. 84.

Thanks for the page reference, Paul. I knew this must've been the
inspiration for Pynchon's "Infant Tyrone", but forgot about the explicit
mention in GR. And I'd never looked it up before, either.

> Somehow I'd had the erroneous impression it had been  Watson and Raynor's  
> own child being experimented on. Glad to get this new info.

The reference in GR is pretty easy to misinterpret.

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
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