Innocence and Experience - The Atlantic (October 2008)

1 Keith Richards is evacuated from suburban London to escape German buzz bombs, 1944. 3 Sigmund Freud sees his mother naked, 1859. 6 Alfred Hitchcock’s father sends him down to the police station with a note instructing the officer in charge to lock him in a cell for five minutes, circa 1905. 9 Proust suffers his first asthma attack, circa 1881. 10 Martin Luther King Jr. sings in a boys choir at the premiere of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta, 1939. 11 Giacomo Casanova experiences his first orgasm, 1736. 12 Joan of Arc begins to hear voices, 1424. Adolf Hitler attends a performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin, 1901. 13 Spanky McFarland retires from Our Gang, 1942. William F. Buckley Jr. takes up sailing, 1939. 14 Marie Antoinette is packed off to be married to the heir to the throne of France, 1770. She is stripped naked and... [read full story]                    

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