The Ivory Tower

Maggie Verver has the sense that something's going on inside if she can only get to it. Her husband Prince of America is having an affair and not just with anyone but with the young wife of Maggie's father. Gregory Bateson who said that really cleared this up for me when I heard him lecture at Stanford. If you believe that what is passing along the axon of the squid is a nerve impulse you never will, he says.