I’m no Benjamin Franklin, but I maintain that the biggest lies need some truth to hang their hat on. The trick to reading ‘Dreams’ is to sift the little truth out of the body of the work.
And one rather obvious truth is that a number of names and characters were used and blended to create the composite character of the mother.
And one rather obvious truth is that a number of names and characters were used and blended to create the composite character of the mother.
And even the book itself admits that there were “composite characters” and other blendings and fictions added in. And yet still plenty of people cling to what was even admitted to be at best historical fiction.