Without Dr. Keen, I wonder what would have become of Walter. With no famous important guy to emulate, who knows what line of work he might have chosen? My guess is mountaineering.
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Dr. Keen’s wife Tinnie, Walter’s maternal grandmother, was a Borden and a second cousin of Lizzie’s. The jokes tell themselves.
All these quotes are taken from Keen of Philadelphia, Dr. Keen’s collected memoirs. In the back there’s a picture of a family reunion, with a thirty-four-year-old Walter holding a two-year-old Doctor Three. Adorable!
I didn’t realize before I started how much I would enjoy drawing Nervous Walter. It’s because of the biographer’s crush I have on him. It makes me want to brew him a cup of tea and listen attentively while he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think Walter might have made a good novelist. That’s better than a lot of the writing I did in college.
The first six pages of the book I’m working on. They will be bigger than this in their printed form but the proportions will be the same. I think they look spiffy and I hope you agree.
You may remember meeting my psychiatrist (the live one) here. It’s actually unfair of me to suggest that Walter would have found my method of dealing with depression inadequate. Judging from what I read in the Freeman-Watts papers he didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…