Novel autobiography

John Lilly s seminal research on the brain, dolphins, and psychedelics is chronicled in his "novel autobiography" The Scientist... 

In 1978, Marcia Moore and Howard Alltounian published a book about Ketamine, Journeys into the Bright World. Another positive account appears in John Lilly s novel-autobiography The Scientist, where this compound is referred to as K. Some users have been highly enthusiastic a few have been disappointed. Here s a response from someone who saw his Ketamine experience as quite distinct from those induced by other psychedelics ... 

R. Huisgen, The Adventure Playground of Mechanisms and Novel Reactions, American Chemical Society, Washington DC, 1994 (in the series Profiles, Pathways and Dreams Autobiographies of Eminent Chemists ). 

If for Marcus the early, discarded drafts of texts were often seen as the truer , more overtly feminist versions which were then suppressed, DeSalvo s work on buried and repressed narratives may well have influenced her contentious biography of Woolf, Virginia Woolf The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work (1989). For DeSalvo, Woolf s life s work - her memoirs and her autobiography, her novels, her essays and biographies - is an invaluable missing link in the history of incest, abuse, and the effects of family violence . In her work, DeSalvo writes, Woolf carved out a way to tell her story. . . and that of other childhood victims of abuse and neglect . 

In addition to autobiography, Woolf s coding tactics include ellipses or dashes, juxtaposition and intertextual allusions. In a 1927 letter to Vita, Woolf su ests sexual play with a dash If I saw you would you kiss me If I were in bed would you - (L3, p. 443). In A Room of One s Own the lesbian possibilities in the novel about how Chloe Hked Olivia. .. (ROO, p. 86) appear in the ellipses. Kitty s lesbian desires, aroused by Miss Fripp s... 

Sir Walter Scott, the author of Ivanhoe and other historical novels, was born in 1771. In his autobiography (1808) he described, with pride, that his mother s half-brother, Daniel Rutherford, was professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh and that he, in his thesis in 1772, had submitted conclusive proofs for the existence of a new gas. The celebrated novelist wrote in the retrospective portrait of his life that his uncle had been one of the best chemists in Europe. 

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