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the journal: Lipton’s. See note 122.
The Fifty Minute Hour: The subtitle of Lindner’s 1955 book is A Collection of True Psychoanalytic Tales. It had been reissued several times, most recently in 2002.
Charlie Devlin: A Brooklyn writer who helped NM with NAD, he was also the model for McLeod in BS.
the evaluative blurb: NM has generally held to this principle in the hundreds of blurbs he has given over the past half century.
Blanche Knopf: Wife of Alfred C. Knopf, president of the eponymous publishing house.
Mescaline: NM tried mescaline when in Mexico and used it to write the final sentences of DP, but paid for it with “a hangover beyond measure.” See AFM 245.
