I don't remember what birthday it was that I received The Pogo Stepmother Goose as one of my presents. Maybe the eighth? The ninth? That was about the age that I adored the now mostly forgotten comic strip "Pogo" by Walt Kelly. So much so, that I made a little pennant out of flannel and, … [Read more...]
“Lucrecia the Dreamer” and the Spanish Inquisition – Kelly Bulkeley’s New Book on Dreams (Part 2)
Kelly Bulkeley. Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition. Stanford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my post of two weeks ago.) At the end of our last installment, we left Lucrecia de León in the prisons of the Spanish Inquisition with her newborn … [Read more...]