On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:07:25 -0800, michael sylvester wrote:
Does anyone know what type of cigars Freud smoked? Were they Cuban cigars? And I have a follow-up question.
On the Cigar Aficionado website there is an article on Freud's cigar usage. Quoting from that article: |Obtaining good cigars, however, was no easy task. In |turn-of-the-century Vienna, the Austrian government |maintained strict control over the tobacco industry, and |so Freud's cigar options were quite limited. According to |The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of |the Final Decade, translated by Michael Molnar, Freud |usually smoked a cigar called a trabucco, which was small, |relatively mild and considered the best of those produced |by the Austrian monopoly. But he complained that they |were inferior, preferring the Don Pedros and Reina Cubanas, |which he could get during his vacations in the picturesque |Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden. Freud also enjoyed |Dutch Liliputanos, and when old age limited his travel, |he frequently recruited friends and colleagues to bring |him his favorite cigars from across the border. http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/More-Than-a-Cigar_6051/p/2 (NOTE: one might want to examine a copy of "The Diary" to verify the claims made above; the book is available in snippet view on books.google.com but it does not seem to contain the word "trabucco"). It is perhaps ironic that Freud was vacationed in Berchtesgaden, the home of Nazi officials. Viewers of the HBO series "Band of Brothers" may remember that at the army was in a hurry to beat others to get to the "Eagles Nest" in Berchtesgaden because Hitler had a mountaintop home there (Damian Lewis as Major Richard Winters comments on the absurdity of a man with a fear of heights living in such a high place). However, there is some debate aboot who got there first; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlsteinhaus And remember: sometimes a cigar is just a penis. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=34529 or send a blank email to leave-34529-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
