Author: William Michael
Thursday, 19 November 1998 - 01:03 am |        |
| It's hard to believe that anyone would wish to make a film about Eddy as the Ripper. We KNOW his whereabouts at the time of all the murders, and he was NOT anywhere near the East End. Dr. Abrahamsen would have us believe (apparently unaware that Eddy's whereabouts at e.g. the time of the last murder are known) that Eddy, dressed in drag (with or without the mustach one wonders) spent hours hip-switching up and down tiny Dorset street without attracting attention and then taking off by Underground to his tutor's flat in Kensington. Dr. Abrahamsen, who is a psychiatrist, assumes a completely undocumented homosexual relationship between them and that transvestites are homosexual (some are, but many are not). Somehow, Eddy, whose absence from court would have to have gone unnoticed for at least a day and a half, then retreated to Sandringham (in men's clothing, one suspects) without being noticed on the way. I presume an ABC of the time would show when "Collars" would have been able to leave Norfolk and return. I have no idea, at this stage of our knowledge, why PAV is still regarded as a suspect. |
Author: Gary Nargi
Friday, 22 January 1999 - 04:22 am | |
| This book is almost a parody of psychoanalysis, and example of all the things people ridicule about Freudians. Our Dr. Abrahamsen is quite smug about his being the first to approach the case with psychoanalytic "insights" while himself having no knowledge of how to study crime or history. I wonder if his work on David Berkowitz was this bad? |
Author: Jim Sedgwick
Wednesday, 03 March 1999 - 05:43 am | |
| This book is absolutely ridiculous!!! It is without a doubt one of THE MOST horrible pieces of gay bashing I have ever witnessed! The whole concept of Prince Albert Victor and his partner James Stephen dressing up in dragg to go out and hack up these women is LAUGHABLE to say the least! My only regret is that I purchased this book to begin with!!!! |
Author: Joe Tynan
Tuesday, 30 March 1999 - 03:52 pm | |
| Absolutely right, guys. Abrahamson's book is a totally laughable piece of junk. |
