And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and his good friend David Kalakaua, king of Hawaii, 1889
DR Stevenson came up with the theory that if you monitor a persons blood pressure while asking questions you will detect "A tremor in the blood".
A guy named Charles Moulton made a machine to do that. Charles Moulton writing as William Moulton Marston, was also a literary figure: the creator of Wonder Woman. A babe with bodacious wobbleknockers who had a golden lasso that compelled the lassee to tell the truth. I believe sombody told a lie about Charles Moulton when he was 13
A guy named William Benneton invented the control question test, the technique used by practitioners of the snake oil technology. His second claim to fame: he hooked up the skin galvanometer of a polygraph to a plant, cut some leaves off a plant in another room, then read the graph and discovered that the plant reacted to him approaching. The plants were rhododendrons
This experiment was duplicated by yet another author: L. Ron Hubbard repeated the experiment with an e meter, a stage prop used in Scientology. The plant: a tomato
The much beloved King Kalakaua, the 'Merrie Monarch'.
ReplyDeleteStevenson looks anorexic.
ReplyDeleteAnother case of Cultural appropriation. Hawaian KIng wearing western clothing and sitting in a western style chair.
ReplyDeleteKidnapped is a great and often overlooked book. I prefer it over RLS’s other works.
ReplyDeleteDR Stevenson came up with the theory that if you monitor a persons blood pressure while asking questions you will detect "A tremor in the blood".
ReplyDeleteA guy named Charles Moulton made a machine to do that. Charles Moulton writing as William Moulton Marston, was also a literary figure: the creator of Wonder Woman. A babe with bodacious wobbleknockers who had a golden lasso that compelled the lassee to tell the truth. I believe sombody told a lie about Charles Moulton when he was 13
A guy named William Benneton invented the control question test, the technique used by practitioners of the snake oil technology. His second claim to fame: he hooked up the skin galvanometer of a polygraph to a plant, cut some leaves off a plant in another room, then read the graph and discovered that the plant reacted to him approaching. The plants were rhododendrons
This experiment was duplicated by yet another author: L. Ron Hubbard repeated the experiment with an e meter, a stage prop used in Scientology. The plant: a tomato