Woooow! Yahoo is really backed up today!! I doubt if I will really be able to access all of my mail from there at all today or over the weekend. I have never seen that particular company work so slowly!! The school kids are all out for the holiday and are flooding the net this morning!!
..The two small papers, for which I am writing this weeks reviews, will each reach about 5000 individuals at the minimum. There is a third paper, which might print both reviews, but I have to get a reader sampling based on whether or not they are selling more papers in the town or in the countryside. Country people are more conservative,....statistically speaking!!
..Of the two books, which,..I am reviewing,...mine is going straight for the market that Densmoreid writes for. It is the market,..quiet and conservative for which I write,..and the market in which I am most comfortable...now. WALKING FREE is a delicious example of the type of "inspirational and feel-good market," that seems to be so neccesary in today's world.
..Shakespeare's book represents another mode of expression. I cannot say that I approve of all of the violence in Shakespeare's story. As I delve deeper into the book and its basic premise,..I find that certain elements in it repulse me. Yet,..its basic theme of control in a certain type of relationship, which calls itself love,..rings very closely true to some of the things that I have been hearing in my abnomal psychology class.
..Vampyrism with all of its' "gothic trappings" is a logical representation of this particular type of feeling and self expression. In my review,..I will say that Shakespeare has done a good job of covering these elements of "love-lust" fantasy and control over those, whom one loves
..Control is a very interesting theme. If one were to pin point a certain type of psychological control and hone it down to it's basic elements,...one would find a blackness in the heart of the controller that is even worse than the one that is found in any other type of being. In abnormal psych, we found that those in control will go to any length and say anything to maintain that control over the minds of others.
..As control represents power,..those being controlled will follow the person, who is doing the controling to the bloody and bitter lengths that the one seeking control demands. According to this premise,..as Dr. Hostetler said last night,..you can even offer the people, who are being controled,..reasonable escape routes from the total control under which they are held,..and those escape routes will be ignored,..because the people under control, have been so well conditioned into thinking that they need the "authority" under which they have lived!!! Some folks need to be controlled simply because that is the basis for their psychological security!! Woooot!
The only person over which I really want...control,..is the hardest person in the world to contol,...myself!! That is a reasonable goal for any human being!