Watts essay: the little man

Joseph S. Barrera III joe at barrera.org
Sat Oct 2 20:15:13 CDT 2004


Paul Mackin wrote:

>  On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 17:10, pynchonoid wrote:
>
> > ...from James Wolcott's blog yesterday:
> >
> > [...] The allusion in "Tweet Smell of Success" to "Reichian" refers
> > not to Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, but Wilhelm Reich,
> > renegade psychotherapist and founder of the Orgone Institute, who
> > in his 1948 book Listlen, Little Man! addressed the reader:
>
>
>  At least it wasn't the Third Reich.

You mean Harpo Reich?

- Joe
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