John IrvingSigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei
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Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist either. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.
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