He had been offered letters of introduction http://cprr.org/Museum/Secty_War_Re... from his new-found friends in New York to aquaintances of theirs in Pittsburgh, but had declined these, as the departure of the John C. Fremont, the steamboat he had chosen, http://images.google.fi/imgres?imgu... was tentatively set for the day after his arrival and his passage was already engaged. He had been warned that there were often unforseen delays, as the packets on the Ohio followed no regular schedule, but came and went "on the rise," as river conditions permitted. But luck was with him: plentiful rains had kept the water high http://www.skagitriverhistory.com/P... and mild weather had prevented the formation of the ice that, only the year before, had seriously interfered with winter travel. http://www.foggydoggy.com/TITANIC.j... The downpour which, like the soot, perpetually obscuring the atmosphere, had seemed to him so depressing, was actually a blessing in disguise; it enabled him to start on the next lap of his journey thirty-six hours after his arrival in Pittsburgh; and, as he had found little to do in the meanwhile, besides conscientiously visiting "The Point," Fort Duquesne and Mrs Morgan's Place, all seen through the gloom http://artchive.com/artchive/V/van_... which, apparently, never lifted, he was glad to be on his way.

Sunday-Monday 19th & 20th December 1857

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It was snowing so hard when reaching Cincinnati that they didn't go ashore; but the next morning, (Wed 22nd) when they arrived at Louisville, though the air was brisk, the sun was shining brightly and the landing was full of interest to Paul. A dozen or more boats were drawn up at the waterfront and there were as many Irish and Dutch dockhands as Negroes. ~

Aboard Steamboat Diana

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MENU

DINNER. Classe Premiere.

SOUP
Piseseddel. no 1. Skild paddes soup. " 2. Soup Chifouade. " 3. Winesoup. " 4. Soup Paté d'Etoil. " 5. Mannagrynsuppe. " 6. Laugh Potage à la Brûnage. " 1. paralyse Côteletter by Russiske Ærter. " 2. The chicken Suprême by Tryffel. " 3. FISKE
Hønsesalat garn. by Main thing. " 4. Baked Oxen - a la file. " 5. Kalve - The file with The asparagus green. " 6. Mobstersalat garnered by Edge and Anschovis. " 7. Kalve Frecandeau with Carottes - Blaze. " 8. Partridge with Winesauce. "

ROAST
9. Turkeyflice Tryffel. " 10. Greenkokker à la Årovincial. " 11. Chicken - Hash by Edge Mollet. " 12. Kalkun-Blanche. " 13. Fish à la Marinade. " 14. Flyndre The nature. " 15. Brain - The file in Kastanier. " 16. Spækket Hare - The file by Edge à la Provincial. " 17. Lame stag in Spinat. " 18. Chickenfricasee by Risengryns - Table. " 19. Kalve - Table by Sukkerrøder. " 20. Birds Tongue à la Chafouin in Olivers. " 21. Crème-Bruno. " 22. Kaffe-Crème. " 23. Citroen-Crème. " 24. Blachmange Pig. " 25. Wine sauce-Gelee. " 26. Mandarin-Gelee, cream and jelly." 35. Mannagrynsuppe. " 36. Laugh Potatoes à la Brûnage. "37. Henburger in Chips. "38. Boiled Oafs and dripping.

ENTREES
" 41. Parsley Côteletter by Ivan Ærter. " 42. The chicken Suprême in Tryffel. " 43. Honey worm salad garn. by Main thing. " 44. Bespoken Oxe - the file. " 45. Calf - The file in The asparagus green. " 46. Lobster ice-cream, garneret by Edge and Anschovis. " 47. Kalve Frecandeau by Carottes - Blazed. " 48. Partridge by Winesauce. "49. Kalkun farceret with Tryffel. " 50. Kronærtskokker à la Årovincial. " 51. Chicken - Hash by Edge Mollet.

COLD DISHES
" 52. Turkey-Blachmange. " 53. Fish à la Marinade. " 54. Fly Fish Au Naturale. "55. Brain - In Chestnut. " 56. Rare Hair bit - The toupee by Edge à la Provincial. " 57. Wild Goose head jelly in Spinach sauce. " 58. Snail fricasee in Rice grains - Tabled. " 59. Kalve - Tabby a la Sorrento. " 60. Birds à la Chafouin in Olivers. " 61. Crème-Polska. " 62. Crème of Brute. " 63. Citrus-Crème. " 64. Blamache. " 65. Viin-Gelee. " 66. Appelsin-Gelee." 67. Citron-Gelee. " 68. Cocoa Boris-Ice cream. " 69. Vanilla-Ice cream. " 70. Fruit-Ice. " 71.Cold Zebra Stew

PUDDINGS
"73. Niche dans Cristal Bougie Tenir à Pommade Cierge "92. Bougies Fleurir Arrangements Rouge Gerbera Pâquerettes (Ferrari) Rouge Floribunda Rosier ( roi ) et Verte Lierre dans Cristal Socle

CAKES
Fonds Grain Bass Artichokes and Adolescent Crash Roast Gold Tomato Gravy Dress Pecota Sauvignon Bland Plug Smoke Beef File Fresh Corn Stake Broiled Portobella Mushroom soup and Green BBQ Bass Gravy Stag Blew up Wine Cellars Fay Vineyard Cabernet 1798 *

CREAMS and JELLIES
(Orange and Avocado Salad Bright Delight) Potato Pungent Cilantro Band Support *

DESSERT
"95. Fishes and Cherry Ginger Almond Ice, Assorted Seattle Bonnet Doon Muscle Wine Glacier " 1801 Record Arrangement Cream Damaskus Record cloth Regale Base Sheet and Chin (flushed and gold )

FRUIT
Vermin Flatware Chairperson drove Kennel of 1836 Crystal Light Care for Cream Taper Candlestick Bloom Arrangement Flushed Sheaf Nymph Scrap iron. "93. Flushed Floribunda Rose (king) and Green Ivy at Crystal Base Fund. Supportere votre local clochards. "91. Coffee, tea, brandy, cigars. http://www.hsn.com/cnt/prod/default...

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p201

"It's all I can do to read through it," Paul said, laying the fantastic sheets down on the table again. "I was brought up on Creole cooking, which no one ever called light! I think I'll just settle for oyster soup, turkey and plum pudding - all appropriate."

Then he remembered his phenomenal memory. * Hwsaoht * He was so ahead of his time and remembered his watch was gaining between a few to several seconds a month, even though he had inspected it and procaimed it 100% working machinery. "What, no boar's head with apple jelly, no wild goose a l'Aberdeen, no fanchonetts, no orange flower cream, no macaroons with silver web!" said one of the merry company...

p202

The Diana reached Memphis about two in the morning on Wednesday December 29th and a number of her passengers disembarked there, The weather was mild now, the sun bright; the region of cotton fields had been reached and, occasionally, planters' spacious houses and clusters of Negro huts could be seen on either side of the river.

First What is paranoia?

<Being paranoid means being suspicious without reason, and believing that others are trying to harm you in some way. Everyone can be mistrustful at times, particularly if life hasn’t treated him or her well. But people who are prone to paranoia always dread some forthcoming attack or betrayal. They are forever anticipating that something awful will happen, and trying to second-guess what their adversaries might do. They focus on their fears for the future, and take little account of the majority of times when the past has proved them wrong.

<< WOW!! This sounds exactly how chessplayers are required to think during a chess game. You can't trust your opponent because He or She IS OUT TO GET YOU,>>

In extreme forms, they can't distinguish reality from fantasy. (Psychiatrists may refer to this as a psychosis, and talk about people having delusions.) It can be a very isolating condition, because people feel they can’t depend on anybody. They may feel angry, fearful, guilt-ridden, suspicious, vengeful and excluded, and may become very depressed, as a result.>

Rail. 'Silver Palace.' NY - Harrisburg(dinner) - Altoona (supper) Pittsburgh. Boat. 'Fremont.' - Cincinatti- Louisville. change boat(festive breakfast and christmas dinner). 'Diana' Vicksburg - NO.

Morphy had no doubt calculated that since Louisville-Memphis, a distance of about 380 miles, took from Friday 24th December until about 2 in the morning of the Wednesday 29th, nearly six full days. about 60 or so miles a day. (From a "late festive breakfast" on the Friday morning of 24th until the regrettably early 2am the following Wednesday morning.) Memphis-Viksburg was about 116 Mi. 410 altogether so it would take a couple of days, give or take, to make New Orleans, as he watched Viksburg pass by, finding him at the dock in NO, hopefully around midday/afternoon on the Sunday, 2nd January 1858, blissfully unaware of all that was going to happen to him in the remaining 363 days ahead, and beyond, when he would have to put up with being like a huge fiery Comet that would arrive and strike, obliterating everything in the old world, with his charming agreeable manner and exquisite lethal attacks on all who dared to face and cross him. He was to be the unwilling retiring Caesar, Alexander and Napoleon of his time, developing a strange and unusual aversion for all the accolades and adoration connected to it, and unfotunately also being subject to the more unpleasant side of lesser-beings jealousy, resentment and mean-spirited envy in certain known quarters. http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Apoca...

Well, the short story is he got home a couple of days later, being met at the wharf according to FKP by:

p205

: his grandfather, leaning on his cane, but indignantly shaking off tender of other support; his uncle Charles ~ brother Edward, his brother-in-law John Sybrandt, his cousin Edgar Hincks and his friend Charles de Maurian ~

(and a cast of other thousands that couldn't wait but * "stormed up the gangplank, swarming all over it even before it was in place" followed by wringings of hand, clappings of shoulder,seizings of arm, complete with champagne to welcome the conquering hero home.)

*FKP

** Frances Keyes Parker's book is widely acknowledged as being largely fictional and should not be taken as the gospel truth as it can be factually challenging, as <SBC>points out where she, (FKP) departs from again reality by having Paul sail (he was by all accounts a terrible sailor) to New York, by way of Havana, on his way to attend the Congress, Nov 1857, when he actually travelled upriver and by rail. It's probably a long story.

Morphy and Madness:

<BishopBerkeley> offered me some (much needed) insight into a man named Dr. Albert Ernest Jones.

For our purposes, Ernest Jones wrote an article entitled, "The Problem of Paul Morphy."

Born 1/1/1879 in Wales and died 2/1/1958, Jones became a psychologist. He learned to converse in German simply to better understand Sigmund Freud and became Freud's leading adherent. He founded both the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (where his article on Morphy appeared in January 1931). Jones became Freud's official biographer (and for a long time was the only person allowed access to the Freud archives).

According to <BishopBerkeley> whom I will shamelessly quote here:

"He was not only Freud's primary biographer, but he was also a practitioner of Freudian psychoanalysis in the more strict Freudian tradition. (Freud had trouble keeping his more brilliant associates "in the fold" of psychoanalysis: among the more celebrated "heretics" from his system were Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung. Jones appears to have been much better behaved!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest...

As you may know, Freud had published a psychoanalysis of Woodrow Wilson ("Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A psychological Study"), and Ernest Jones had published a psychoanalysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet character (showing that psychoanalysis is so powerful it can be extended to fictional characters as well ! Much text of his 1910 article on Hamlet is available here in a page-by-page format: http://www.clicknotes.com/jones/wel... ).

So both men were comfortable psychoanalyzing people they had never met. No surprise then that Jones should be drawn to the cryptic figure of Paul Morphy."

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You can read Ernest Jones' article, "The Problem of Paul Morphy" here: http://batgirl.atspace.com/Jones.html

<Ernest Jones had published a psychoanalysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet character (showing that psychoanalysis is so powerful it can be extended to fictional characters as well !>

It's not documented anywhere, but rumor has it that Jones also psycho-analyzed Bruno, his neighbor's dog; Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie; and his mother's favorite lounge chair.

As far as furniture goes, I do not encourage psychoanalysis. Lemon Pledge is much more effective, I've found. Most pieces of furniture suffer from extreme inferiority complexes, including feelings that they are not appreciated, that they are always being used, etc. (Sadly, there is often some truth to these feelings.) Appliances are even worse. (Though they are the ONLY things I know of that respond well to electroshock therapy. Their owners, however, do not.)

<Ron> I am doubtful of the value and/or the legitimacy of psychoanalysis, at least of the more Freudian variety. I find C. G. Jung much more interesting than Freud, and I find his most interesting thoughts to be his least Freudian! I agree with Abraham Maslow, that the two leading personality theories of his time, psychoanalysis (based on the study of those believed to be mentally ill) and behaviorism (based on the study of rats in mazes, etc.) are not good foundations for a *general* conception of human personality. Maslow was so bold as to suggest that we study the *mentally WELL* to come up with a general model of the human mind. His 16 characteristics of the healthy-minded are certainly worth a glance, in my view:

http://www.100bestwebsites.org/alt/...

(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)

<Lemon Pledge is much more effective>

Blind Lemon Jefferson isn't so bad either, but should be applied in arpeggio fashion with a ragtime applicator.