NOTES

Introduction

1.  Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1895, first published in The Fortnightly Review, February 1891.

2.  Gore Vidal, “The Oz Books” in Gore Vidal, United States: Essays, 1952–1992, New York, New York: Random House, 1993, page 1095.

3.  David Lynch, as quoted in Ed Naha, The Making of Dune, New York, New York: Berkley Books, 1984, page 213.

4.  As quoted in Norman Holland, Literature and the Brain, Gainsville, Florida: The PsyArt Foundation, 2009, pages 327–328. The two essays Holland is summarizing are Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, “Consider the Source: The Evolution of Adaptations for Decoupling and Metarepresentation” in Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science ...

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