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The Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones hadn’t twigged the connection between ‘mummy brown’ and real mummies until one Sunday lunch in 1881, when a friend related having just seen one ground up at a colourman’s warehouse. Burne-Jones was so horrified he rushed to his studio to find his tube of mummy brown, and ‘insisted on our giving it a decent burial there and then’. The scene made a great impression on the teenage Rudyard Kipling, Burne-Jones’s nephew by marriage, who was also a guest at lunch. ‘[T]o this day,’ he wrote years later, ‘I could drive a spade within a foot of where that tube lies.’
The Secret Lives of Colour
Kassia St Clair
The outbreak of war intensified the political efforts of academics on all sides. No nation saw itself as an aggressor; each believed that it was simply fighting to defend home and culture from those who would destroy them.
Beyond Uncertainty
David C. Cassidy
he child with autism is at heart “normal”, but their autism has them trapped, blocked-off from the world. Bruno Bettelheim, a leading champion of the refrigerator mother theory, called his major book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Empty-Fortress-Infantile-Autism-Birth/dp/0029031400"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Empty Fortress</span></a>. Either professionals, or parents, need to “break through” the autism to contact the “real” child imprisoned by the disorder. Likewise, this real child is eager to get out, but this is very difficult: they are crying out for help. In the 60s, it was psychoanalysis that could free the child. Today, it’s anything from <a href="http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/06/citalopram-doesnt-wor.html">Prozac</a> to <a href="http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/14/">chelation</a> and other <a href="http://www.autism-watch.org/about/bio2.shtml">quack “biomedical” cures</a>.
Autistic Children in the Media - Neuroskeptic
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