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In my innocence I thought something dramatic was happening, but it's ok, it was just the young Freud hypnotising a character...I wonder if the scene was inspired by the Glass Bead Game or Bobby' it was all a dream in' "Dallas"?

pedagogical, all too pedagogical

"one heaped high with Schlag"

do Viennese seriously refer to schlagsahne as Schlag? If so no wonder they don't have an empire any more, phaff!

"You look tired, Josef. A long day?"

Really don't think that the young Sigmund Freud would have been so informal with Josef Breuer, one would barely be so informal in modern German with somebody old enough to be your father let alone in turn of the century Vienna

"after his small breakfast of coffee & crisp 3-cornered Kaisersemmel"

Good God what is it with US writers and triangles? Kaisersemmel like dinner plates are round: as the briefest of research confirms

"upon hearing there was no evidence of cancer, Herr Perloth broke into a jubilant smile & grabbed Breuer's hand & kissed it"

hopefully not the hand which just carried out the rectal examination

Cover and title both for me epitomise the self-published book - can it be as bad a book as both promise or even worse?