why a pancake house?
There are a lot of plainly obvious reasons to set a book in a pancake house, and I don’t need to go into these because they are, I think, fairly self-evident, at least to most people. However, I will say that I sometimes lamented the whole high comedylow comedypancake and egg situation, again for all the obvious, painful reasons that everyone in this country can easily imagine. Q: What made you want to take on the world of psychoanalysis with this book, and did that involve any research into its various factions and theories? A: I never set out on a course of specific research. Nor did have it in mind to use the situation in the pancake house as a way of poking fun at psychoanalysis — not as an end in itself. I’d been reading psychoanalytic literature for several years, and had, when I began The Verificationist, a basic appreciation of the history of psychoanalytic thinking, and of the ways various theories and movements shaped analysis in different countries during different periods
