Dear George W. Pigman III,

My name is Conrado Salas Cano and you taught me Latin at Caltech ca 1996. More

recently, I photocopied your article “The Dark Forest of Authors: Freud and Nineteenth-

Century Dream Theory”, and I just finished reading it.

I think you will be interested in my website…:

http://conradosalas.info

You will probably be shocked by it, and that’s good.

My own shock has been great, too, however, upon learning about the trial of your son. It

is interesting that the only time I have ever been handcuffed in my life was… at Caltech,

and if I remember well it was while boning up on Latin for your course. I was so

concentrated, with my eyes closed, and so obsessive, that I refused to hear the prying

questions of a campus security officer who was doing his routine beat about the library or

wherever it was. He took it as an affront on his authority, thought I was psychologically

disturbed, and preemptively handcuffed me! Happily I promptly explained what I was

doing to the officer and I was released right away, but the episode certainly taught me

something about the psychology of law enforcement in America and their morbid,

paranoid distrust of any socially aberrant or culturally deviant behavior.

Clearly if your son did indeed commit murder he has (or had at least at that point) lessons

to learn, but I am not sure that the prison industry in America is the proper setting to teach

them. Nor, for that matter, is the psychiatric system with its mind-controlling drugs. Then,

of course, if you are forced to choose between the two… But I have opined enough

already.

At any rate, please receive my kind greetings and best wishes,

Conrado Salas Cano